Church and patronage in 20th century Britain : Walter Hussey and the arts / Peter Webster.
2017
N5247.H87
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Title
Church and patronage in 20th century Britain : Walter Hussey and the arts / Peter Webster.
ISBN
9781137369109 (electronic book)
1137369108 (electronic book)
9781137369093
1137369094
1137369108 (electronic book)
9781137369093
1137369094
Published
London : Palgrave Macmillan, [2017]
Copyright
©2017
Language
English
Description
1 online resource
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N5247.H87
Dewey Decimal Classification
709.42
Summary
This book is the first full-length treatment of Walter Hussey's work as a patron between 1943 and 1978, first for the Anglican parish church of St Matthew in Northampton, and then at Chichester Cathedral. He was responsible for the most significant sequence of works of art commissioned for the British churches in the twentieth century. They included music by Benjamin Britten, Leonard Bernstein and William Walton, visual art by Henry Moore, Graham Sutherland and Marc Chagall, and poetry by W. H. Auden. Placing Hussey in theological context and in a period of rapid cultural change, it explores the making and reception of the commissions, and the longer-term influence of his work, still felt today. As well as contributing to the religious and cultural history of Britain, and of Anglo-Catholicism and the cathedrals in particular, the book will be of interest to all those concerned with the relationship between theology and the arts, and to historians of music and the visual arts.
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This book is the first full-length treatment of Walter Hussey's work as a patron between 1943 and 1978, first for the Anglican parish church of St Matthew in Northampton, and then at Chichester Cathedral. He was responsible for the most significant sequence of works of art commissioned for the British churches in the twentieth century. They included music by Benjamin Britten, Leonard Bernstein and William Walton, visual art by Henry Moore, Graham Sutherland and Marc Chagall, and poetry by W. H. Auden. Placing Hussey in theological context and in a period of rapid cultural change, it explores the making and reception of the commissions, and the longer-term influence of his work, still felt today. As well as contributing to the religious and cultural history of Britain, and of Anglo-Catholicism and the cathedrals in particular, the book will be of interest to all those concerned with the relationship between theology and the arts, and to historians of music and the visual arts.
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Histories of the sacred and the secular 1700-2000.
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Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. The formation of a patron
Chapter 3. The 1943 Jubilee festival at Northampton
Chapter 4. Music, art and poetry: 1944-55
Chapter 5: The religious arts on a rising tide: people, media, networks
Chapter 6: new visual art for Chichester
Chapter 7: Chichester music
Chapter 8: Cathedral, city and diocese
Chapter 9: Legacy.
Chapter 2. The formation of a patron
Chapter 3. The 1943 Jubilee festival at Northampton
Chapter 4. Music, art and poetry: 1944-55
Chapter 5: The religious arts on a rising tide: people, media, networks
Chapter 6: new visual art for Chichester
Chapter 7: Chichester music
Chapter 8: Cathedral, city and diocese
Chapter 9: Legacy.