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Blast to Freeze
Henry Meyric Hughes
Gijs van Tuyl
Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg
Abattoirs (Museum complex)
其他書名
British Art in the 20th Century
出版
Hatje Cantz
, 2002
主題
Art / History / General
Art / European
Art / History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945)
Design / General
ISBN
3775712488
9783775712484
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=P6NPAAAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
It was a sensation, indeed, when the young British artists took over the art scene in the 1990s. But what came before them? With works from more than 100 artists,
Blast to Freeze
traces the epoch-making art movements of an entire British century, from the outbreak of World War I to the collapse of the Soviet Union, beginning and ending with a decided break from the traditional. In 1914 a group of young British artists, the Vorticists, in their avant-garde journal
Blast!
, propagated a style that blended influences from French cubism and Italian futurism into an independent British modernism. In turn, mavericks such as Henry Moore and Francis Bacon are unthinkable without the British primitivists and surrealists of the 20s and 30s. The specifically British brand of pop art began with the legendary exhibitions of the Independent Group in the 50s, and in the 80s, new British sculpture emerged, represented by important proponents such as Tony Cragg and Antony Gormley. The YBAs, presented to the world in the exhibition
Freeze
, jointly organized by Damien Hirst and friends in the London Docklands in 1988, brings the survey to a close.