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‘within the reach of all’: Bringing Art to the People in Interwar Britain

‘within the reach of all’: Bringing Art to the People in Interwar Britain The years during and after the Great War saw an explosion in arts organisations attempting ‘to bring the Arts into everyday life’.1 This essay argues that arts organisations should be seen alongside institutions like bookshops, magazines and galleries as key mediating institutions between modernist artists and writers and the general public. Using the Arts League of Service as a case study, I explore whether it was possible for such organisations to be experimental, educational and popular. To what extent could they reconcile their democratic principles with their belief in the transformative power of experimental modern art, design, literature and performance? http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Modernist Cultures Edinburgh University Press

‘within the reach of all’: Bringing Art to the People in Interwar Britain

Modernist Cultures , Volume 15 (2): 28 – May 1, 2020

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Edinburgh University Press
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ISSN
2041-1022
eISSN
1753-8629
DOI
10.3366/mod.2020.0290
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Abstract

The years during and after the Great War saw an explosion in arts organisations attempting ‘to bring the Arts into everyday life’.1 This essay argues that arts organisations should be seen alongside institutions like bookshops, magazines and galleries as key mediating institutions between modernist artists and writers and the general public. Using the Arts League of Service as a case study, I explore whether it was possible for such organisations to be experimental, educational and popular. To what extent could they reconcile their democratic principles with their belief in the transformative power of experimental modern art, design, literature and performance?

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Modernist CulturesEdinburgh University Press

Published: May 1, 2020

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