"Originally published as Volume 35, Issue 2 of Art History"--Title page verso.

Machine generated contents note: Notes on Contributors 1. Being British and Going... Somewhere (Lisa Tickner and David Peters Corbett) 2. 'The morrow we left behind': Landscape and the Rethinking of Modernism, 1939-53 (Chris Stephens) 3. Sculpture for the Hand: Herbert Read in the Studio of Kurt Schwitters (Megan R. Luke) 4. Science, Art and Landscape in the Nuclear Age (Catherine Jolivette) 5. Photography into Building in Post-war Architecture: The Smithsons and James Stirling (Claire Zimmerman) 6. Realism, Brutalism, Pop (Alex Potts) 7. The Independent Group's 'Anthropology of Ourselves' (Catherine Spencer) 8. Dada's Mama: Richard Hamilton's Queer Pop (Jonathan D. Katz) 9. Francis Bacon: Painting after Photography (Martin Hammer) 10. Vulgar Pictures: Bacon, de Kooning, and the Figure under Abstraction (Andrew R. Lee) 11.'Export Britain': Pop Art, Mass Culture and the Export Drive (Lisa Tickner) 12. Painting and Sculpture of a Decade '54-'64 Revisited (Andrew Stephenson) 13. Varieties of Belatedness and Provincialism: Decolonization and British Pop (Leon Wainwright) Index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"Informed by new research, this rich collection of thought-provoking essays presents a fresh assessment of British Art in the Cultural Field, 1939-69, locating influential artists, movements, institutions, and individual works against the changing economic and cultural landscape to shed new light on this seminal period in British art history. International art historians explore many different aspects of the period which saw post-war austerity, decolonisation, and the birth of postmodernism Takes a variety of approaches, from the broad canvas of the political economy of art to closely attentive readings of individual artists and works, from Bacon to Stirling, and the Independent Group to Pop Art Invaluable for students and scholars of the field, as well as general readers, including the growing number of collectors of twentieth-century British art "--

"Presents a major contribution to a fresh assessment of the field, informed by new research"--