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The E-BNR aims to build a comprehensive & unique cross-artform guide to
the British neo-Romantic tradition,
from 1880 to the present day.
While the British Romantics of 1789-1824 have spawned a vast industry of
publishers, conferences & tourism, the later neo-Romantic traditions
remain largely neglected. The E-BNR is aimed at bringing this hidden
tradition to light.
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WHAT IS NEO-ROMANTICISM ?
Neo-Romantic artists have drawn their inspiration
from artists of the age of Romanticism or earlier.
Characteristic themes in their work include a
mystical approach to the British landscape...
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ENTRY: Brandt, Bill
Bill Brandt (b. May 3, 1904 - d. December 20, 1983)
was a British photographer and photojournalist. Brandt's body of work makes him
Britain's most influential photographer of the 20th century.
The son of a British father and German mother, he grew
up as the First World War was raging, and contracted tuberculosis shortly after.
This meant he spent his youth in a sanatorium in Davos,
Switzerland, but he had already developed a talent for photography.
He later moved to Paris where he assisted in the studio of Man Ray
and met and photographed the poet Ezra Pound, before arriving in England.
Bill Brandt acheived eminence during the depression of the 1930s when he photographed
working-class life in the depressed industrial districts.
Although thought of primarily as someone working in the documentary and broadly modernist
tradition, he had an ingrained surrealist approach. His appreciation of the intertwining of
English Literate and the English landscape can be seen in Literary Britain, 1951,
making evocatively romatic pictures of Hardy's Wessex and the Bronte sisters' Yorkshire Moors.
This combination of surrealism and romanticism in the landscape would influence
photographers and artist-photographers who were to emerge
in Britain after 1945, such as Fay Godwin.
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