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Whitechapel at War Dominic Williams

Whitechapel at War By Dominic Williams

Whitechapel at War by Dominic Williams


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Summary

Whitechapel at War: Isaac Rosenberg and his Circle is the first book for almost 20 years to focus on the visual work of poet-painter Isaac Rosenberg. It is also the first to explore his art in the context of his Whitechapel peers, including painters David Bomberg, Mark Gertler, Jacob Kramer, Bernard Meninsky and Clare Winsten, and the writers John Rodker, Joseph Leftwich and Stephen Winsten.

Whitechapel at War Summary

Whitechapel at War: Isaac Rosenberg and his Circle by Dominic Williams

Whitechapel at War: Isaac Rosenberg and his Circle is the first book for almost 20 years to focus on the visual work of poet-painter Isaac Rosenberg. It is also the first to explore his art in the context of his Whitechapel peers, including painters David Bomberg, Mark Gertler, Jacob Kramer, Bernard Meninsky and Clare Winsten, and the writers John Rodker, Joseph Leftwich and Stephen Winsten.

Now regarded as one of the finest war poets of his generation, Rosenberg published only two collections of poetry during his lifetime, all at his own expense. Although he thought of himself as a poet rather than a painter, his work as an artist deserves far greater consideration than it has been given to date. In his art as well as his poetry, Rosenberg sought to articulate the ongoing struggle between modernism and tradition, then at the heart of contemporary debate.

This book includes photographs of the artist and his contemporaries, reproductions of his drawings, letters and paintings, and written contributions from Rosenberg's biographers and literary critics alongside more art-historical texts. It provides a fascinating document of a lost era.

Whitechapel at War Reviews

'This sumptuously produced and illustrated quarto volume ... is a worthy tribute in print and pictures to a great poet and artist'. Modern Language Review

About Dominic Williams

Sarah MacDougall (Eva Frankfurther Research and Curatorial Fellow for the Study of Emigre Artists/Head of Collections) and Rachel Dickson (Head of Curatorial Services) have been joint senior curators at Ben Uri since 2002; Jean Liddiard is author of Isaac Rosenberg: Poetry Out of My Head and Heart and editor of Isaac Rosenberg: Selected Poems and Letters; Jean Moorcroft Wilson is a Lecturer at Birkbeck College, London and author of Isaac Rosenberg: The Making of a Great War Poet; Dominic Williams is Visiting Lecturer in the Department of History of Art and Architecture, University of Reading.

Table of Contents

Ben Uri Gallery; Chairman's Introduction; Curator's Foreword: London; Curator's Foreword: Leeds; Goodbye to all that: The beat goes on, Dr Joseph Cohen; Essays: Isaac Rosenberg The Painter Part I 'Art is not a Plaything', Sarah MacDougall and Rachel Dickson; Isaac Rosenberg The Painter Part II 'Shaken and Shivered', Sarah MacDougall and Rachel Dickson; Isaac Rosenberg: War poet as Painter, Dr Jean Moorcroft Wilson; Whitechapel at War: The Whitechapel boys and the Great War, Rachel Dickson and Sarah MacDougall; First Fruits: The Whitechapel Boys in Print, Rachel Dickson and Sarah MacDougall; Fighting on Different Fronts: Isaac Rosenberg and John Rodker, Dr Dominic Williams; Whitechapel Girl: Clare Winsten and Isaac Rosenberg, Sarah MacDougall; Catalogue of Works; Rosenberg Chronology compiled by Dr Jean Liddiard; Select Bibilography; Notes; Acknowledgements and Credits.

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GOR006862791
9780900157097
0900157097
Whitechapel at War: Isaac Rosenberg and his Circle by Dominic Williams
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Ben Uri Gallery and Museum
20090728
144
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