Beasley, Becky. 2025. Sussex Modernism. Yale University Press, New Haven, CT. [Other]

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Wolf, Hope, ed. Sussex Modernism. 2025. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, pp. 279-281. ISBN 9780300244618 [Book Section]

A look at how artists and writers harnessed the landscapes, cultures, and histories of their locations to reimagine how art should be made and life lived

Hope Wolf explores a breadth of work by over 70 artists associated with different modernist movements who either visited or resided in Sussex. Well-known figures, including Virginia Woolf, Jacob Epstein, David Jones, Gluck, Edward Burra, and Lee Miller, are joined by countercultural artists of the 1960s–1980s, women artists whose power was regional rather than national, as well as the voices of modernism’s opponents. Offering a new history of modernism, this book intertwines literature, painting, sculpture, architecture, film, photography, textiles, music, and domestic decoration across a period of over 100 years. Revealing how artists drew on their environments to promote psychic and social change, Sussex Modernism is a book of jostling perspectives on art, place and politics.

Becky Beasley’s 2017 installation Ous and 2021 installation H. S. P. (or Promising Mid-career Woman) is discussed in the publication (p. 279-281).

Item Type:	Other
Departments, Centres and Research Units:	Art
Date:	8 April 2025
Item ID:	39307
Date Deposited:	01 Aug 2025 09:39
Last Modified:	01 Aug 2025 09:39
URI:	https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/39307

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