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Above the Battlefield: Modernism and the Peace Movement in Britain, 1900-1918

Above the Battlefield: Modernism and the Peace Movement in Britain, 1900-1918

Brockington, Grace

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ISBN10: 0300151950
ISBN13: 9780300151954
Publisher: Yale Univ Pr
Published: Mar 8 2011
Pages: 244
Weight: 2.46
Height: 1.00 Width: 7.90 Depth: 10.30
Language: English

The early twentieth century is usually remembered as an era of rising nationalism and military hostility, culminating in the disaster of the First World War. Yet it was marked also by a vigorous campaign against war, a movement that called into question the authority of the nation-state. This book explores the role of artists and writers in the formation of a modern, secular peace movement in Britain, and the impact of ideas about positive peace on their artistic practice. From Grace Brockington's meticulous study emerges a rich and interconnected world of Hellenistic dance, symbolist stage design, marionettes, and book illustration, produced in conscious opposition to the values of an increasingly regimented and militaristic society, and radically different from existing narratives of British wartime culture.

Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art

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