Trevor Harris (ed.), Art, Politics and Society in Britain (1880–1914): Aspects of Modernity and Modernism

Abstract

Trevor Harris makes the point in his preface to this collection of essays on the interconnections between art, politics and society in late nineteenth and early twentieth-century Britain that the significance of “modernity” and “modernism” “can only be usefully explored if one admits and explores the contradictions, and even paradoxes that they generate” (viii). The eight essays in this collection, which grew out of a conference on the same theme held at the University of Tours in 2008, provi...