Amongst the Nerves of the World
| Amongst the Nerves of the World | |
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| Artist | C.R.W. Nevinson |
| Year | 1930 |
| Type | Oil on canvas, cityscape painting |
| Dimensions | 97.7 cm × 72.5 cm (38.5 in × 28.5 in) |
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Amongst the Nerves of the World is a 1930 oil painting by the British artist C.R.W. Nevinson.[1] [2] [3] A cityscape, it depicts a view of Fleet Street looking eastwards from an upper-storey window towards Ludgate Hill and St Paul's Cathedral. A steam train can be seen crossing the bridge heading to Holborn Viaduct station. Fleet Street was at the time the centre of British journalism. Nevinson was a leader of the British futurist movement around the time of the First World War. Although he later drifted away from the movement, this work reflects a return to the style. It shows a strong influence of Umberto Boccioni in using telephone and telegraph wires to criss-cross the painting, emphasising the dynamic nature of the location.[4]
Today the painting is in the collection of the Museum of London, having been gifted to its predecessor in 1930.[5]
References
Bibliography
- Galinou, Mireille & Hayes, John. London in Paint: Oil Paintings in the Collection at the Museum of London. The Museum, 1996.
- Ingleby, Richard. C.R.W. Nevinson: The Twentieth Century. Merrell Holberton, 1999.
- Ross, Catherine. Twenties London: A City in the Jazz Age. Bloomsbury, 2003.
- Yass, Marion. Britain Between the World Wars, 1918-1939. Wayland, 1975.