中文简介：

本书从绘画、雕塑、建筑、陶瓷和摄影，探索了一个丰富的实验领域，挑战了二战后英国文化停滞的观点。通过简·艾莉森（Jane Alison）、希拉里·弗洛（Hilary Floe）、本·海默（Ben Highmore）、哈马德·纳萨尔（Hammad Nassar）和格雷格·索尔特（Greg Salter）的新作，本书重新审视了知名艺术家弗朗西斯·培根（Francis Bacon）、大卫·霍克尼（David Hockney）、卢西恩·弗洛伊德（Lucian Freud）和爱德华多·保罗齐（Eduardo Paolozzi）与不知名人物的对话。这些人包括弗朗西斯·牛顿·索萨（Francis Newton Souza）、阿维纳什·钱德拉（Avinash Chandra）和罗伯特·亚当斯（Robert Adams），他们受到同时代人的赞誉，但在随后的历史创造中被遗忘；而金·林（Kim Lim）、安瓦尔·贾拉尔·舍姆扎（Anwar Jalal Shemza）和弗朗西斯·特默森（Franciszka Themerson）等人，直到现在才获得了应有的关注。在他们的作品中，重要的共同关注点变得清晰可见：性别、阶级、种族和民族性；身体、爆炸现场和家庭。这是一个与当今时代产生强烈共鸣的时期：当英国从十多年的财政紧缩中走出来，面对大流行疫情后重建的挑战时，社会也在问同样深刻的问题：我们想要和需要成为什么人。

英文简介：

Spanning painting, sculpture, architecture, ceramics and photography, Postwar Modern will explore a rich field of experiment which challenges the idea that Britain was a cultural backwater at this time. Through new texts by Jane Alison, Hilary Floe, Ben Highmore, Hammad Nassar and Greg Salter, the book looks afresh at celebrated artists such as Francis Bacon, David Hockney, Lucian Freud and Eduardo Paolozzi, shown in dialogue with lesser-known figures. These will include those, like Francis Newton Souza, Avinash Chandra and Robert Adams, who were acclaimed by contemporaries but neglected in subsequent history-making; others, like Kim Lim, Anwar Jalal Shemza and Franciszka Themerson, are only now attracting the attention they deserve. Throughout their work, vital shared preoccupations become visible: gender, class, race and nationhood; the body, the bombsite, and the home. It is a period resonating strongly with our own: as the UK emerges from more than a decade of austerity and confronts the challenges of post-pandemic reconstruction, society is asking similarly deep questions about who we want and need to be.