Stanley Spencer. Modernism in English: to be or not to be

This book is the first attempt to study English art of the late XIX - the first half of the 20th century in the context of European modernism. Having focused on the works of the famous English artist Stanley Spencer, who formed a unique worldview and artistic concept, the author analyzes all the difficulties and contradictions, searches and compromises associated with the penetration of modernism into English ground, both in the creative fate of Stanley Spencer himself, and in the searches of other English artists - R. Fray, W. Lewis, M. Hertler, J. Epstein, L. Lauri, E. Gill, E. Burra, G. Suserland, F. Bacon, L. Freud and many others. The reader is invited to make a trip to the world of art of the first half of the 20th century, learn about cultural, philosophical, religious, social disputes in English society and feel this time through the artist’s life with his pain, love, joy, disappointment and hopes.
The book is richly illustrated and addressed to all the English art, its ideas and problems