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Blast to freeze : British art in the 20th century / Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg ; [general editors, Henry Meyric Hughes, Gijs van Tuyl ; translation: Ingrid Nina Bell and others].

Ostfildern-Ruit, Germany : Hatje Cantz ; New York : D.A.P. Distributed Art Publishers [distributor in the U.S.], ©2002.

359 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 28 x 25 cm

With works from 100 artists, this publication traces the art movements of an entire century. As early as 1914, a group of young artists blended influences from French Cubism and Italian Futurism into an independent British Modernism, and this text traces British art through the century.

Art, British -- 20th century -- Exhibitions.

Exhibition catalogs.

Hughes, Henry Meyric.

Tuyl, Gijs van.

Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg.

Abattoirs (Museum complex)

Published on the occasion of the exhibition "Blast to Freeze, Britische Kunst im 20. Jahrhundert," Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, 14 September 2002 - 19 January 2003, and "Blast to Freeze, British Art in the 20th Century, " Les Abattoirs, Toulouse, 24 February - 11 May 2003.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 351-354).

Includes essays by Andrew Causey, Richard Cork, Penelope Curtis, Charles Harrison, James Hyman, Jeremy Lewison, Marco Livingstone, Tim Marlow, Richard Shone, Christopher Stephens and others.

Fog in the channel: the British dialogue with modernism / Robert Hewison -- Blast, armageddon and aftermath / Richard Cork -- Direct carving and the notion of a "modern British sculpture." International or insular? Modern or traditional? / Penelope Curtis -- Going modern and being British: the challenge of the 1930s / Jeremy Lewison -- Apokalyptic visions: British art in the 1940s and 1950s / David Alan Mellor -- "We are the masters now": modernism and reconstruction in post-war Britain / Christopher Stephens -- Forbidden conversations: the independent group, modernism, urban reality and American mass culture / Anne Massey -- Open situations: British abstraction in the 1960s / Tim Marlow -- Pop Art / Marco Livingstone -- Everything: a view on a developing counterculture in the mid 1960s in London / Andrew Wilson -- Crisis of modernism / Charles Harrison -- Artists' film in Britain: six moments / David Curtis -- British performance: an incorrect view / Anthony Howell -- Persistence of painting: contexts for British figurative painting, 1975-90 / James Hyman -- "New British sculpture" of the 1980s / Andrew Causey -- Freeze and its aftermath / Richard Shone -- British art schools and the influence of art education in the twentieth century / Nick de Ville -- "Strange patronage": promoting twentieth century British art / Margaret Garlake -- Role of the critic / Norbert Lynton.

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