David Bomberg

Table of contents, acknowledgments, introduction, endnotes, bibliography, index. Frontispiece portrait of Bomberg, a 20th century English artist. Color plates and black and white illustrations throughout. Dust jacket lightly soiled. x, 344 pages. cloth, dust jacket. 4to..

Arts & Photography

Cork, Mr. Richard

History & Criticism

Yale University Press

Individual Artists

The trauma of the First World War had an immensely powerful effect on the painters, sculptors, and printmakers who participated in it. They produced an extraordinary range of striking images that conveyed the immediacy and horror of their experiences and feelings. This arresting book is the first to bring together and examine the full international array of images spawned by the Great War. Richard Cork shows how avant-garde artists from Europe, Russia, and the United States challenged the recruiting posters and other propagandist views of the struggle by producing art that reflected the degradation of the trenches. Many of their images are now counted among the landmarks of early twentieth-century art, but his pioneering and lavishly illustrated book also examines a wealth of far less familiar work. The conflict was anticipated before hostilities began by the visionary and apocalyptic work of painters such as Meidner and Kandinsky, Chagall, Nevinson, Grosz, Beckmann, Kirchner, and other artists were quick to define war's essential tragedy with objective, expressionist, or allegorical art that alluded to their own wartime experiences. The harshest images of war were made in the later stages or after the Armistice, when artists such as Dix had time to consider their participation in the war. Ironically, the post-war years also witnessed the redemptive work of Spencer and Brancusi who, after the Armistice, produced monumental affirmations of brotherhood, fortitude, and love.

A Bitter Truth: Avant-Garde Art and the Great War

Richard Cork is one of the most serious, most influential, and best-informed art critics in Britain today. These four volumes contain a selection of his articles from the seventies, eighties, nineties, and the year 2000. The result is a fascinating chronicle and invaluable record of a turbulent period that gives an overview and survey of British art and its reception over the past thirty years which is wholly unprecedented in its scope.

Everything Seemed Possible: Art in the 1970s

CORK, Richard

New Spirit, New Sculpture, New Money: Art in the 1980s

Richard Cork is one of the most serious, most influential, and best-informed art critics in Britain today. These four volumes contain a selection of his articles from the seventies, eighties, nineties, and the year 2000. The result is a fascinating chronicle and invaluable record of a turbulent period that gives an overview and survey of British art and its reception over the past thirty years which is wholly unprecedented in its scope.

Breaking Down the Barriers: Art in the 1990s

Annus Mirabilis?: Art in the Year 2000

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David Bomberg

David Bomberg

A Bitter Truth: Avant-Garde Art and the Great War

Everything Seemed Possible: Art in the 1970s

New Spirit, New Sculpture, New Money: Art in the 1980s

Breaking Down the Barriers: Art in the 1990s

Annus Mirabilis?: Art in the Year 2000