The Reconciliation of Modernism: Ceri Richards and the second generation, 19301945

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A critical contextualizing of the early work of modernist painter Ceri Richards.

This study assesses Ceri Richards's early art and career, documenting experimental drawings and constructions. The emerging analysis establishes a complex relation between this artist and his European contemporariesprominently Max Ernst, Joan Mir, Pablo Picasso, Constantin Brncui, and Hans Arpcontributing to an art historical study of the emergencies of modernism in Britain during the early twentieth century. The book includes a full account of Richards as a European modernist and of the dislocation of British artists' engagement with, and Richards's processing of, Paris surrealism; accompanying illustrations include previously unseen drawings and reconstructed early states, discussed here for the first time.

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Dafydd W. Jones is an academic writer and editor. His books include Dada 1916 in Theory: Practices of Critical Resistance and The Fictions of Arthur Cravan: Poetry, Boxing and Revolution.