Apocalypse in British Art and Visual Culture in the Early Twentieth Century

This book is the first substantial study of the presence and relationship with the concepts of apocalypse, eschatology, and millennium in modern British art from 1914 to 1945, addressing how and why practitioners in both religious and secular spheres turned to the subjects.

The volume examines British art and visual culture’s relationship with the then-contemporary anxieties and hopes regarding the...