L'autore:
Alexandra Harris was born in Sussex in 1981. She studied at the University of Oxford and at the Courtauld Institute in London and now teaches English literature at the University of Liverpool. Romantic Moderns won the Guardian First Book Award and a Somerset Maugham Award in 2011.
Dalla seconda/terza di copertina:
In the 1930s and 1940s, artists and writers explored what it meant to be alive in England. Eclectically, passionately, wittily, they showed that the modern need not be at war with the past. Constructivists and conservatives could work together, and even the Bauhaus émigré, László Moholy-Nagy, was beguiled into taking photographs for Betjemans nostalgic Oxford University Chest. This modern English renaissance was shared by writers, painters, gardeners, architects, critics, tourists and composers. John Piper, Virginia Woolf, Florence White, Christopher Tunnard, Evelyn Waugh, E. M. Forster and the Sitwells are part of the story, along with Bill Brandt, Graham Sutherland, Eric Ravilious and Cecil Beaton.
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