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British Prints from the Machine Age

Rhythms of Modern Life 1914-1939

Clifford S Ackley editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Thames & Hudson Ltd

Published:24th Aug '09

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British Prints from the Machine Age cover

Published to accompany the exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, this catalogue examines the impact of Futurism and Cubism on British modernist printmaking from the beginning of World War I to the beginning of World War II. Imagery ranges from powerful artistic impressions of the first fully mechanized war, to radical geometric abstractions, to the colourful, streamlined jazz age images of speed, sport and diversion which the Grosvenor School artists created in order to introduce a broader public to modern art and design. Interest in this era is peaking among collectors, curators and art historians and this is an ideal moment to introduce these innovative British printmakers to a wider public.

'Exhilarating' - RA Magazine
'A joy to browse' - World of Interiors

ISBN: 9780500288375

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 980g

224 pages