2016年5月17日星期二

去年8月
Art historian James Fox talks about his new book, 'British Art and the First World War'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OexB4uZXGtY

2015年5月17日 13:17 ·
公視剛播過"城市之光三部曲"的維也納1908
內容還可算豐富，由英國藝術史家新秀James Fox主持。可惜公視的網頁摘要人員的功力，似乎只有國小水準。
You Tube 也有George Steiner談維也納當時的文藝圈......

British Art and the First World War, 1914–1924

The First World War is usually believed to have had a catastrophic effect on British art, killing artists and movements, and creating a mood of belligerent philistinism around the nation. In this book, however, James Fox paints a very different picture of artistic life in wartime Britain. Drawing on a wide range of sources, he examines the cultural activities of largely forgotten individuals and institutions, as well as the press and the government, in order to shed new light on art's unusual role in a nation at war. He argues that the conflict's artistic consequences, though initially disruptive, were ultimately and enduringly productive. He reveals how the war effort helped forge a much closer relationship between the British public and their art - a relationship that informed the country's cultural agenda well into the 1920s.
Table of Contents

Introduction
1. The outbreak of war and the business of art
2. Perceptions of art
3. The arts mobilize
4. War pictures: truth, fiction, function
5. Peace pictures: escapism, consolation, catharsis
6. Art and society after the war
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index.

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