Baroque between the Wars is a fascinating and new account of the arts in the twenties and thirties. We often think of this time as being dominated by modernism, yet the period saw a dialogue between modern baroque--eclectic, playful, camp, open to influence from popular culture yet in dialogue with the past, and unafraid of the grotesque or surreal--and modernism, which was theory-driven, didactic, exclusive, and essentially neo-classical.

Jane Stevenson argues that both baroque and classical forms were equally valid responses to the challenge of modernity, by setting painting...

This is the second volume in a four-volume edition of the writings of Lucy Hutchinson, which have never before been published in a collected edition.