Compare and contrast two of the three key texts. Harrison, Charles English art and Modernism 1900 - 1939. Read, Herbert Contemporary British Art.
Compare and contrast two of the three key texts.
<Tab/>Discussed in this essay are two books; English Art and Modernism 1900 - 1939 written by Charles Harrison, published in 1981 and Contemporary British Art, written by Herbert Read published in 1951. Although it may seem unusual to include the published dates of the books in this portion of the essay it is important to understand the different prospective each of the writers had. The …
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…may find a small loss of interest in Harrison's drawn out account of only forty years of English art. One should also question Reads relationship with the artists having an effect on his art at the same time as questioning Harrison's retrospective view.
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*<Tab/>Harrison, Charles English art and Modernism 1900 - 1939. London Allen 1981
*<Tab/>Read, Herbert Contemporary British Art. Pelican books 1951
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