- Published to accompany the UK-wide Insiders/Outsiders arts festival taking place between March 2019 and March 2020 in celebration of the many cultural figures and intellectuals who came to Britain as refugees from Nazi-dominated Europe in the 1930s and 1940s
- Publication coincides with the 80th anniversary of the outbreak of the Second World War and of the Kindertransport programme
Insiders/Outsiders, published to accompany a UK-wide arts festival of the same name in 2019, examines the extraordinarily rich and pervasive contribution of refugees from Nazi-dominated Europe to the visual culture, art education and art-world structures of the United Kingdom. In every field, émigrés arriving from Europe in the 1930s - supported by a small number of like-minded individuals already resident in the UK - introduced a professionalism, internationalism and bold avant-gardism to a British art world not known for these attributes.
At a time when the issue of immigra... Read More
- Published to accompany the UK-wide Insiders/Outsiders arts festival taking place between March 2019 and March 2020 in celebration of the many cultural figures and intellectuals who came to Britain as refugees from Nazi-dominated Europe in the 1930s and 1940s
- Publication coincides with the 80th anniversary of the outbreak of the Second World War and of the Kindertransport programme
Insiders/Outsiders, published to accompany a UK-wide arts festival of the same name in 2019, examines the extraordinarily rich and pervasive contribution of refugees from Nazi-dominated Europe to the visual culture, art education and art-world structures of the United Kingdom. In every field, émigrés arriving from Europe in the 1930s - supported by a small number of like-minded individuals already resident in the UK - introduced a professionalism, internationalism and bold avant-gardism to a British art world not known for these attributes.
At a time when the issue of immigra... Read More