Focusing on the social, political, and cultural significance of printmaking, this beautifully illustrated work reexamines the influential interwar period in Britain. It highlights the artistic innovations and the role of printmaking in shaping contemporary artistic movements, offering insights into the era's creative landscape.
Richard Brown Baker was a pioneering art collector who began his journey in the 1940s, focusing on emerging artists and embracing movements like Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art. His remarkable collection features over 1,600 works from notable American artists, including Jean-Michel Basquiat and Jackson Pollock, as well as influential European and Asian artists such as Alberto Burri and Kurt Schwitters. Baker's dedication to collecting during a transformative period in art history highlights his significant role in shaping the contemporary art landscape.
This book is about Keats' odes of the spring and autumn 1819. The author employs close reading to shed new light on the development, through struggle within the images, of each ode and the ode sequence. She shows how, as an outcome of this struggle, Keats achieves a new understanding of poetry's possibilities, of the dialectical nature of life and the historical process.