How Long to Read Romantic Moderns: English Writers, Artists and the Imagination from Virginia Woolf to John Piper

How Long Does it Take to Read Romantic Moderns: English Writers, Artists and the Imagination from Virginia Woolf to John Piper?

It takes the average reader 7 hours and 55 minutes to read Romantic Moderns: English Writers, Artists and the Imagination from Virginia Woolf to John Piper by Alexandra Harris

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

Description

Winner of the 2010 Guardian First Book Award: a groundbreaking reassessment of English cultural life in the thirties and forties. In the 1930s and 1940s, while the battles for modern art and modern society were being fought in Paris and Spain, it seemed to some a betrayal that John Betjeman and John Piper were in love with a provincial world of old churches and tea shops. Alexandra Harris tells a different story: eclectically, passionately, wittily, urgently, English artists were exploring what it meant to be alive at that moment and in England. They showed that “the modern” need not be at war with the past: constructivists and conservatives could work together, and even the Bauhaus émigré László Moholy-Nagy was beguiled into taking photos for Betjeman’s nostalgic An Oxford University Chest. A rich network of personal and cultural encounters was the backdrop for a modern English renaissance. This great imaginative project was shared by writers, painters, gardeners, architects, critics, and composers. Piper abandoned purist abstracts to make collages on the blustery coast; Virginia Woolf wrote in her last novel about a village pageant on a showery summer day. Evelyn Waugh, Elizabeth Bowen, and the Sitwells are also part of the story, along with Bill Brandt and Graham Sutherland, Eric Ravilious and Cecil Beaton.

How long is Romantic Moderns: English Writers, Artists and the Imagination from Virginia Woolf to John Piper?

Romantic Moderns: English Writers, Artists and the Imagination from Virginia Woolf to John Piper by Alexandra Harris is 459 pages long, and a total of 118,881 words.

This makes it 155% the length of the average book. It also has 145% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Romantic Moderns: English Writers, Artists and the Imagination from Virginia Woolf to John Piper Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 10 hours and 49 minutes to read Romantic Moderns: English Writers, Artists and the Imagination from Virginia Woolf to John Piper aloud.

What Reading Level is Romantic Moderns: English Writers, Artists and the Imagination from Virginia Woolf to John Piper?

Romantic Moderns: English Writers, Artists and the Imagination from Virginia Woolf to John Piper is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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