Sussex Modernism

Hope Wolf

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Yale University Press
29 April 2025

Art & design styles: Modernist design & Bauhaus

A look at how artists and writers harnessed the landscapes, cultures, and histories of their locations to reimagine how art should be made and life lived

Hope Wolf explores a breadth of work by over 70 artists associated with different modernist movements who either visited or resided in Sussex. Well-known figures, including Virginia Woolf, Jacob Epstein, David Jones, Gluck, Edward Burra, and Lee Miller, are joined by countercultural artists of the 1960s–1980s, women artists whose power was regional rather than national, as well as the voices of modernism's opponents. Offering a new history of modernism, this book intertwines literature, painting, sculpture, architecture, film, photography, textiles, music, and domestic decoration across a period of over 100 years. Revealing how artists drew on their environments to promote psychic and social change, Sussex Modernism is a book of jostling perspectives on art, place and politics.

By: Hope Wolf
Imprint: Yale University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 270mm, Width: 216mm,
ISBN: 9780300244618
ISBN 10: 0300244614
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 29 April 2025
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Dr Hope Wolf is a reader in Literature and Visual Culture and co-director of the Centre for Modernist Studies at the University of Sussex.