British Romantic Art and the Second World War

by Stuart Sillars

Overview

An examination of the ways in which the artists and writers of the 1940s developed and extended approaches from earlier English romanticism to provide a direct and compassionate response to the reality of contemporary destruction.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781349099207
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	01/01/1991
Edition description:	1st ed. 1991
Pages:	240
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Some versions of romanticism; the romantic continuity; romantic realism; blitz sublime; the nurturing earth; a child of our time; midwinter spring; pasts and futures.