How Long to Read Modern Life & Modern Subjects

How Long Does it Take to Read Modern Life & Modern Subjects?

It takes the average reader 5 hours and 44 minutes to read Modern Life & Modern Subjects by Lisa Tickner

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

In May 1914 the Whitechapel Art Gallery in London opened its exhibition of Twentieth-Century Art. The catalogue identified four main strands in modern painting but included a fifth group of Jewish artists, hung in the Small Gallery. In this illuminating book art historian Lisa Tickner takes a fresh look at the work of artists from each of these strands. In a series of innovative case studies, combining analysis with substantial new research, she examines the artists' radical approaches to the process of painting and their resources in the defining conditions of modern life. Tickner discusses Walter Sickert's Camden Town Murder and L'Affaire de Camden Town in the context of tabloid crime. Augustus John's Lyric Fantasy is seen as rooted in, but also as qualifying, the Edwardian fascination with gypsies and tramping while memorialising John's dead wife, Ida. The studies for Wyndham Lewis's lost Kermesse are connected to popular dance and to his sense of the wild body. Vanessa Bell's Studland Beach is related to the emergence of the beach as a social and psychic space and to childhood summers in St. Ives drawn on by her sister, Virginia Woolf, in To the Lighthouse. And David Bomb

How long is Modern Life & Modern Subjects?

Modern Life & Modern Subjects by Lisa Tickner is 336 pages long, and a total of 86,016 words.

This makes it 113% the length of the average book. It also has 105% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Modern Life & Modern Subjects Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 50 minutes to read Modern Life & Modern Subjects aloud.

What Reading Level is Modern Life & Modern Subjects?

Modern Life & Modern Subjects is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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