Artists and Patrons in Post-War Britain: Essays by Postgraduate Students at the Courtauld Institute of Art

by Garlake, Margaret; Courtauld Institute of Art

• ISBN13: 9780754600459
• ISBN10: 0754600459
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-07-01
• Publisher: Ashgate Pub Co

Summary

Concentration on the Arts Council has obscured the diversity and conflicts within state patronage of the Arts in the post-war period in Britain. Recent studies suggest that this focus is increasing even as the Council's long-term survival becomes less plausible. Little has been published on the British Council, the Institute of Contemporary Arts, or the various county councils, which established pioneering connections between artists and the art world. The five case studies in this volume offer a broader survey of private and public patronage in post-war Britain. The introduction by Margaret Garlake explores the range of ideas that stimulated and determined different aspects of patronage in the period.

Table of Contents

List of figures	vii
Acknowledgements	ix
Introduction	1	(16)
Margaret Garlake
British Tachisme in the post-war period, 1946--1957	17	(38)
Fiona Gaskin
A measure of leaven: the early Gregory Fellowships at the University of Leeds	55	(39)
Marian Williams
`A place for living art': the Whitechapel Art Gallery 1952--1968	94	(31)
Mary Yule
The triumph of `The New American Painting': MoMA and Cold War cultural diplomacy	125	(29)
Stacy Tenenbaum
`Place'	154	(29)
Toby Treves
Bibliography	183	(12)
Index	195