1st Edition
Artists and Patrons in Post-war Britain
218 Pages
by
Routledge
This title was first published in 2001. An examination of art and patronage in Britain during the post-war years. It consists of five case studies, initially written as MA theses, that closely investigate aspects of the mechanisms of patronage outside the state institutions, while indicating structural links within it. The writers have sought to elucidate the relationship between patronage, the... Read more
List of figures, Acknowledgements, 1 Introduction, 2 British Tachisme in the post-war period, 1946-1957, 3 A measure of leaven: the early Gregory Fellowships at the University of Leeds, 4 'A place for living art': the Whitechapel Art Gallery 1952-1968, 5 The triumph of 'The New American Painting': MoMA and Cold War cultural diplomacy, 6 'Place', Bibliography, Index
Biography
Courtauld Institute of Art; Margaret Garlake
