London's burning : life, death, and art in the Second World War
- Author
- Stansky, Peter; Abrahams, William
- Document type
- Livre
- Language
English
- Source
- Originally published: London : Constable, 1994 ; 1994 ; ill. (8 col.); bibliogr. ref.; index ; xiii, 201 p., [48] p. of pl. ; 1994
- ISBN
- 0-8047-2340-0
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press, Stanford, CA (usa)
- Publication country
- United States
- Abstract (en)
- This book examines, from an historical and cultural perspective, the outpouring of art in Great Britain during the war years 1939-1945. It does this through a close study of the lives and wartime works of the sculptor and draftsman Henry Moore, painters Paul Nash and Graham Sutherland, documentary filmmaker Humphrey Jennings, and composer Benjamin Britten. Two central themes unite the individual studies: first, the way in which massive suffering and destruction, in the context of British wartime culture, could become the raw material and inspiration for art; and second, the broader politics of culture, including the role of the state in providing direct support for individual artistic expression in wartime--partly for reasons of propaganda and public morale, and partly as a cultural response to the menace of fascism.
- Subject (en)
- Subject (fr)
- Histoire générale de l'art -- 1800-1945 -- Royaume-Uni
- Art
- Grande-Bretagne
- 1900-2000
- Guerre mondiale (1939-1945)
- Culture
- Etat
- Moore, Henry Spencer, 1898-1986
- Nash, Paul, 1889-1946
- Peinture
- Sutherland, Graham Vivian, 1903-1980
- Jennings, Humphrey, 1907-1950
- Cinéma
- Britten, Edward Benjamin, 1913-1976
- Musique
- Origin
DatabaseBHA (Inist-CNRS/GRI)
Identifier19950101-00309597
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