The Avant-Garde in Interwar England : Medieval Modernism and the London Underground.

Intro -- Contents -- 1 Framing the Picture -- 2 A "Warrior of the Kingdom": Frank Pick's City of Dreams, 1878-1915 -- 3 Making It New: Modernism and the North of England -- 4 Morris, the Machine, and Modernism, 1915-1934 -- 5 The Earthly Paradise of the London Underground -- 6 Educating the Consumer -- 7 The Return of the Bathing Beauties, 1936-1941 -- 8 The Demise of Medieval Modernism -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

This book addresses modernism's ties to tradition, commerce, nationalism, and spirituality through an analysis of the assimilation of visual modernism in England between 1910 and 1939. Specifically, The Avant-Garde in Interwar England explores the life of Frank Pick, managing director of the London Underground, whose patronage of modern artists, architects, and designers was guided by a desire to unite nineteenth-century arts and crafts with twentieth-century industry and mass culture. Author Saler demonstrates that modernism was widely associated in England with medievalism, and was also thought to have direct social, economic, and spiritual benefits for the nation.

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