andré breton

Jul 31

1920s reviews

Simon

Not a recommended reading list, just a convenient list in one place of all my reviews of books about, or from, the 1920s. Mostly fiction, with links off to history reviews. The Twenties by Alan Jenkins (1974) First World War memoirs Storm of Steel by Ernst Jünger (1920) In Our Time by Ernest...

novel short stories play agatha christie john buchan d.h. lawrence ernest hemingway arthur conan doyle margery allingham mikhail sholokhov men without women crome yellow aldous huxley the square egg and other sketches p.g. wodehouse queen lucia the future of an illusion evelyn waugh we the green hat women in love a hunger artist the white guard berlin alexanderplatz noel coward our betters gentlemen prefer blondes: the intimate diary of a professional lady mornings in mexico the fox the crime at black dudley jaroslav hašek summer lightning warsaw 1920 andré breton the three hostages little caesar the mystery of the blue train heart of a dog the trial the big four dorothy l. sayers clouds of witness debits and credits easy virtue alan jenkins e.f. benson george grosz robert graves carry on gentlemen prefer blondes volume three: the glorious licking rudyard kipling mikhail bulgakov the dancing floor graham greene the sun also rises somme and ancre john mcnab the twenties the captain's doll lenin saki storm of steel the constant wife the good soldier svejk hay fever red cavalry jacob's room tales from the don the woman who rode away and other stories the secret of chimneys ashenden whose body? the great gatsby the inimitable jeeves lucia in london the plumed serpent private lives all quiet on the western front ashenden: or the british agent virginia woolf erich maria remarque hermann hesse w.r. burnett decline and fall epilogue to volume one the diamond as big as the ritz my man jeeves der steppenwolf the dain curse the beautiful and damned michael arlen the castle sigmund freud investigations of a dog volume four: the glorious licking continues goodbye to all that a small yes and a big no the murder of roger ackroyd the circle in our time ernst jünger edmund blunden an autobiographical study undertones of war the vortex bernice bobs her hair volume two: at the front the question of lay analysis kangaroo miss mapp leave it to psmith the murder on the links lady chatterley's lover dashiell hammett the maracot deep max brod’s postscript to the trial the seven dials mystery evgeny zamyatin the sacred flame alfred döblin the case-book of sherlock holmes the mysterious affair at styles nadja point counter point jeeves fallen angels to the lighthouse the ladybird max brod this side of paradise william somerset maugham the painted veil the secret adversary the burrow huntingtower a room of one's own red harvest frederic manning aaron's rod the life of jaroslav hašek the man within isaac babel st mawr orlando: a biography f.scott fitzgerald anita loos franz kafka siddhārtha antic hay the virgin and the gipsy mrs dalloway those barren leaves the middle parts of fortune volume one: behind the lines

Jul 30

1920s Paris edited by Rainer Metzger

Simon

‘Before the war they were revolutionaries; now they are bywords’ (strapline advertising Gertrude Stein which Metzger says also applies to Picasso or Matisse) ‘It became the period of being twenty-six. During the next two or three years all the young men were twenty-six years old.’ (Gertrude Stein)...

painting art photography history bauhaus dada paris romania karlsruhe art nouveau ernest hemingway surrealism max ernst berlin ulysses james joyce cologne walter benjamin new objectivity john eberson modigliani séraphine de senlis séraphine louis langston hughes jean cocteau kiki de montparnasse darius milhaud john dos passos picasso le corbusier mona lisa dr jean dalsace folies bergeres daniela gregori andré breton art brut francis picabia pierre jeanneret le train bleu jacques haïk british museum shakespeare and company place charles-félix chaïm soutine florence henri zelda fitzgerald fernand leger marie laurencin marie-thérèse walter french art marc chagall henry crowder alexander calder nice neue sachlichkeit giorgio de chirico montmartre archibald macleish litterature le grand rex duchamp tubism brassaï dadaism sylvia beach henri sauvage la revue nègre paris de nuit paul éluard pierre chareau man ray viktor shklovsky christopher isherwood american vogue stephanie barron sara murphy joan miro rene clair george gershwin oedipus rex colette yves tanguy ezra pound bernard bijvoet guernica isidora duncan henry miller le chien jaune r. mutt studio lecram jean auguste dominique ingres citroen ford madox ford theory of prose georges bataille chanel no. 5 max morise tristan tzara josephine baker marcel duchamp jean badovici eileen gray henri darricarrère coco chanel daria martin georges simenon sinclair lewis modern art constantin brancusi die dame emmanuel radnitzky annie dalsace guillaume apollinaire olga khokhlova charles baudelaire salvador dalí isadora duncan sonia delaunay henry ford nadja hemingway alfred barr joyce art deco apollo musagète roaring twenties l.h.o.o.q. nancy cunard brancusi weimar republic alastair duncan taschen arthur rimbaud dalí cole porter inspector maigret paul colin carolin meister wilhelm uhde auguste bluysen hadley richardson henri matisse sabine eckmann villa savoye marguerite matisse stravinsky jazz age finnegan's wake gyula halász christie's austro-hungarian empire gertrude stein sidney bechet luis buñuel alberto giacometti andré vigneau f.scott fitzgerald lee miller argentine

Jul 29

The Real and the Romantic: English Art Between Two World Wars by Frances Spalding (2022)

Simon

‘For the first time since the eighteenth century, England is making a real contribution to an international art.’ (Nicolete Gray, impresario of the 1936 Abstract and Concrete exhibition, 1936. But was it?) ‘The Real and the Romantic: English Art Between Two World Wars’ by Frances Spalding is a...

painting raymond williams art futurism photography history fascism architecture bauhaus photojournalism modernism design abstraction gerard manley hopkins mondrian etching d.h. lawrence anti-fascism political art frida kahlo british art women artists constructivism surrealism max ernst printmaking romanticism abstract art t.s. eliot fauvism landscape painting avant-garde second world war social realism african art new objectivity walter gropius somerset maugham wyndham lewis roger fry interwar britain aldous huxley john nash wood engraving raymond mortimer sophie brzeska gluck john armstrong tate britain henri gaudier-brzeska rodrigo moynihan cezanne rex whistler feminist art history picasso james boswell laura knight alfred wolmark claude rogers unit one keith vaughan keith piper dora carrington mayor gallery claude flight alfred wallis rock drill stanley spencer joseph southall euston road school andré breton war memorials barbara hepworth alexander rodchenko lill tschudi jacob epstein käthe kollwitz post-war culture bloomsbury group edward bawden giacometti eric ravilious christopher wood fernand leger gwen john george grosz algernon newton neo-romanticism nation's war paintings graham sutherland reginald brill misha black cultural conservatism london group william blake modernist landscape linocuts winifred nicholson giorgio de chirico documentary art geoffrey tibble jean hélion group x felicity ashbee myfanwy evans frances spalding mural painting british surrealism formalism great war grace pailthorpe spanish civil war barbara key-seymer john singer sargent john minton paule vézelay leonora carrington rené magritte leica camera english art emily dickinson dadaism remembrance communist artists interwar art graham bell wood engraving society gerald brockhurst wolfgang suschitzky herbert read international surrealist exhibition british empire charles sims charles cundall vorticism ben nicholson amedeo modigliani king george vi mass culture cultural history war art joan miro c.r.w. nevinson winifred knights samuel palmer tristram hillier robert colquhoun kandinsky john piper john tunnard frances hodgkins stanley william hayter cubism glyn philpot edward wadsworth duncan grant thames and hudson paul nash harold harvey british modernism mervyn peake abstract and concrete exhibition nicolete gray f.l. griggs victoria and albert museum ivon hitchens salvador dalí pearl binder l.s. lowry artists against fascism and war imperial war museum london art world wilfred owen el lissitzky marlow moss patrick heron pavel tchelitchew tomb of the unknown soldier matthew smith experimental art henry moore victor pasmore ceri richards cyril power brancusi michael ayrton john craxton first world war art criticism objective abstractions edward burra julian trevelyan robert macbryde the real and the romantic official war artists edith tudor-hart tirzah garwood cedric morris art historiography society of wood engravers william townsend art between the wars east london group cenotaph sybil andrews seven and five society jean arp ithell colquhoun clifford rowe poster art clive branson socialist art william coldstream xxi gallery concrete art slade art school post-impressionism evelyn dunbar significant form conservative art women's work exhibition