"Whitechapel at War: Isaac Rosenberg and his Circle" is the first book for almost 20 years to focus on the visual work of poet-painter Isaac Rosenberg. It is also the first to explore his art in the context of his Whitechapel peers, including painters David Bomberg, Mark Gertler, Jacob Kramer, Bernard Meninsky and Clare Winsten, and the writers John Rodker, Joseph Leftwich and Stephen Winsten. Now regarded as one of the finest war poets of his generation, Rosenberg published only two collections of poetry during his lifetime, all at his own expense. Although he thought of himself as a poet rather than a painter, his work as an artist deserves far greater consideration than it has been given to date. In his art as well as his poetry, Roseberg sought to articulate the ongoing struggle between modernism and tradition, then at the heart of contemporary debate. This book includes photographs of the artist and his contemporaries, reproductions of his drawings, letters and paintings, and written contributions from Rosenberg's biographers and literary critics alongside more art-historical texts. It provides a fascinating document of a lost era.

Whitechapel at War: Isaac Rosenberg and his Circle (Ben Uri)

Arts & Photography

WILSON, Jean Moorcroft

Williams, Dominic

MacDougall, Sarah

Liddiard, Jean

Dickson, Rachel

History & Criticism

Lund Humphries

"Forced Journeys" is a study of artists in exile in Britain between about 1933 and 1945. It deals with those artists mostly of German and Austrian descent who fled Nazi persecution, and comprises paintings, prints, sculpture, ceramics and posters by artists such as Kurt Schwitters, Jankel Adler, Hans Feibusch, Hans Schleger and Else and Ludwig Meidner. One of the main subjects is internment, as emigres were automatically interned for some months on their arrival in Britain, however distinguished they might be as artists. Schwitters, for instance, was interned on the Isle of Man, later settling in the Lake District, where he lived until his death in 1948. There are a number of works discussed that relate directly to the experience of internment, including a series of drawings by Fred Uhlman from observation and imagination, verging on the savage in their incisive linearity and satire. The book is valuable in shedding light for the first time on artists' experience of internment, as well as their response to their release and return to Blitz-torn London. Surveys of modern British art, particularly of the critical years between 1933 and 1945, rarely acknowledge the importance of the exile milieu. Rather than ghettoising the contribution of refugee artists, "Forced Journeys" examines the crucial impact of their work on the course of modern art in Britain.

Forced Journeys: Artists in Exile in Britain c.1933-45

Black, Jonathan

Gilman, Sander L.

Lloyd, Fran

Vincent, Jutta

Ben Uri Gallery and Museum was founded 100 years ago in July 1915 in Whitechapel in London's East End by Russian-Jewish émigré Lazar Berson and likeminded, mostly émigré, artists and craftsmen, who were unable to access the cultural bastions of the British art establishment. From its inception as an Art Society in 1915, steeped in a vibrant Yiddish culture, to its position today as the only specialist Jewish museum of art in Europe working wholly in the mainstream, Ben Uri's unique international collection has grown to more than 1,300 artworks across a wide range of subjects and media, created by more than 380 artists, primarily (but not exclusively) of Jewish origin and from 35 countries.

Highlights from the Ben Uri Collection (Volume 1)

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

Ben Uri Gallery

Sumptuously illustrated with 66 full color and 6 black-and-white illustrations including paintings, drawings and lithographs from both public and private collections, this publication accompanies Ben Uri's first major exhibition on Sir William Rothenstein (1872 1945) and his circle. Spanning six decades of British art, it explores Rothenstein's career and influence within the context of his (mostly younger) contemporaries including Barnett Freedman, Mark Gertler, Eric Kennington, Jacob Kramer, Albert Rutherston and Alfred Wolmark, who were all either directly influenced by or worked alongside him. Contents: 1 Samuel Shaw 'The Ideal behind the Real': William Rothenstein, Alfred Wolmark and the representation of the Whitechapel Jew, c. 1905-08 2 Sarah MacDougall 'Apropos the Younger Generation': William Rothenstein and Mark Gertler 3 Rachel Dickson From Atonement to Public Adornment: Jacob Kramer and William Rothenstein 1911-22 4 Jonathan Black Eric Kennington and William Rothenstein and the landscape of the Western Front, 1917-19 Catalogue of 38 illustrated works with accompanying texts and extra contextual works Timeline; Exhibitions list; Select Bibliography; Artists' biographies; Index; Copyright and credits.

William Rothenstein and his Circle

Shaw, Samuel

•Major new title on acclaimed but neglected early British modernist artist, by two experts in the field •Features both celebrated and lesser-known but important works from public and private lenders •Published to coincide with the 60th anniversary of the artist's death and the first museum retrospective in a decade This new monograph on the important and influential 20th-century British artist David Bomberg (1890-1957) accompanies a major new exhibition curated by the authors, due to open at Pallant House, Chichester (Oct 2017, touring to Laing Gallery, Newcastle and Ben Uri Gallery, London.) The monograph is a comprehensive yet succinct account, providing an informed and accessible overview of Bomberg's career and achievements, combining a biographical narrative with an analytical and interpretative approach. It discusses and illustrates Bomberg's five key periods and motifs including early, experimental modernism pre the First World War; War artist's commissions and immediate postwar works; major Jerusalem landscapes; portraiture, and particularly self-portraiture; and the flowering of his mature landscapes. The book is also notable for its inclusion of new material relating to Bomberg's Jewish background, and its sumptuous illustratrations. Contents: Chapter 1 (1890-1914) A Disturbing Influence; Chapter 2 (1915-20) The War and its Aftermath; Chapter 3 (1921-39) Jerusalem, Spain and England ; Chapter 4 (1939-45) War and Peace; Chapter 5 (1946-57) The Final Year

Bomberg

•First survey of a century-long contribution of Polish artists in Britain •Tells parallel narratives of Polish Jewish and non-Jewish artists and their respective cultural contributions •Includes contemporary Polish artists currently working in Britain who came for wholly positive reasons •Contributes to current debates around migration and identity •Includes material from private archives and collections A new survey of the contribution of Polish-born artists to British visual culture based on Ben Uri's exhibition of the same title. It is particularly apt as the Polish community approaches its millionth citizen in Britain, making it the nation's largest migrant group, and as Poland is about to celebrate its centenary as an independent nation state. It narrates the story of the Polish community in Britain and Poland's recent turbulent history through the lens of art, tracing the complex stories of Polish-born artists - both Jews and non-Jews - who fled successive regimes, were variously persecuted, imprisoned and interned, crossed continents. But it also looks at Polish people born to today's world, who have come to Britain to study or develop professionally. It brings together a century of artworks and archival material by both celebrated and lesser-known Polish-born artists from the Ben Uri Collection, as well as Polish institutions and private collectors in Britain. Paintings, posters, prints, drawings, cartoons, book illustrations, film and sculpture explore issues of identity and migration, whilst intersecting with formal art historical developments, ranging from expressionism to Pop Art.

Out of the Bloodlands: A Century of Polish Artists in Britain - From Axentowich to Zulawski

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