The Reconciliation of Modernism: Ceri Richards and the Second Generation, 1930-1945

By: Jones, Dafydd W.

A critical contextualizing of the early work of modernist painter Ceri Richards.

This study assesses Ceri Richards's early art and career, documenting experimental drawings and constructions. The emerging analysis establishes a complex relation between this artist and his European contemporaries--prominently Max Ernst, Joan Mir , Pablo Picasso, Constantin Br ncuși, and Hans Arp--contributing to an art historical study of the emergencies of modernism in Britain during the early twentieth century. The book includes a full account of Richards as a European modernist and of the dislocation of British artists' engagement with, and Richards's processing of, Paris surrealism; accompanying illustrations include previously unseen drawings and reconstructed early states, discussed here for the first time.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1837721440
• ISBN13: 9781837721443
• Release Date: December 2024
• Publisher: University of Wales Press
• Length: 344 Pages