Shadow Sites: Photography, Archaeology, and the British Landscape 1927–1955

by Kitty Hauser

Hauser contributes clear, detailed analyses of the lives and art of British Neo-Romantic and Surrealist artists active before and during WWII. She offers a brief history of their involvement with the National Buildings Record and provides a creative analysis of the 1943 Neo-Romantic film, 'A Canterbury Tale' from Powell and Pressburger. Examines what it meant for Neo-Romantics to see, experience and represent the British landscape and notes that Paul Nash, John Piper and Geoffrey Grigson greatly admired Antiquity, for its Neo-Romantic readers, remained a celebration where modernist forms and surreal objects were domesticated by their absorption in a recognizably local and safely historicized landscape.

Genres: History, Art

327 pages, Kindle Edition

First published March 1, 2007