Modern Life and Modern Subjects British Art in the Early Twentieth Century

"MODERN LIFE & MODERN SUBJECTS thoroughly illustrated and annotated is based on a series of lectures and, though not untouched by the peculiar academic habit of using perfectly good nouns ("foreground", "reference", etc) as perfectly hideous verbs, is engagingly discursive in tone and flexible in approach. Tickner ranges widely in her exploration of the various "defining experiences of modernity" that motivated her chosen artists, and the no less various "radical pictorial means" which they developed to express them. With almost forensic tenacity she investigates Sickert's "Camden Town Murder" pictures, so apparently topical and literary in subject, yet so ingeniously open in execution, to reveal how they undermine established notions of both narrative painting and "the nude".Tickner, Lisa is the author of 'Modern Life and Modern Subjects British Art in the Early Twentieth Century' with ISBN 9780300083507 and ISBN 0300083505.