A view of British art and design in the 1930s by William Feaver with Janet Adam Smith Sir James Richards James Fitton , RA
Pearl Binder, Charles Madge
Artists in the 30s were divided by passionate and conflicting ideals.
Ranged against the established artistic order devoted to portraying a green and pleasant England, was a new generation pursuing quite different ideals. For some these lay in abstraction. Others were committed to presenting a grim view of Britain, reflecting the Depression and the inevitability of war...
WILLIAM FEAVER is chairman of a major exhibition which opens next week at the Hayward Gallery. He looks not just at art and architecture but beyond them at how in the decade before the war cinemas, motor cars, publishing, journalism, advertising and broadcasting underwent a revolution. A Research JOY CURTISS
Film cameraman ELMER COSSEY Film editor PETER HEELAS Executive producer CHRISTOPHER MARTIN
Producer DAVID HEYCOCK