Within the Reach of All’
Bringing Art to the People in Interwar Britain
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12917620 |
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| Authors | Emma West (0000-0001-9559-7003, University of Birmingham, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 225-252 |
| Publication date | 2020-03-25 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Modernist Cultures (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1753-8629 • E-ISSN: 2041-1022 |
| Publisher | Edinburgh University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.3366/mod.2020.0290 |
| OpenAlex | W2990760948 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 4 |
The years during and after the Great War saw an explosion in arts organisations attempting ‘to bring the Arts into everyday life’. 1 This essay argues that arts organisations should be seen alongside institutions like bookshops, magazines and galleries as key mediating institutions between modernist artists and writers and the general public. Using the Arts League of Service as a case study, I explore whether it was possible for such organisations to be experimental, educational and popular. To what extent could they reconcile their democratic principles with their belief in the transformative power of experimental modern art, design, literature and performance
Aesthetics · Art · Democracy · Everyday life · League · Media studies · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Sociology · The arts · Transformative learning · Visual arts · Art, Politics, and Modernism · Law · Theatre and Performance Studies · Visual Culture and Art Theory
| Highly cited | No |
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