IAS Book Launch: Insiders/Outsiders

Insiders/Outsiders, published to accompany a UK-wide arts festival of the same name (see www.insidersoutsidersfestival.org), 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 immigration is much debated, the book serves as a reminder of the wide-ranging contribution that refugees make to British life.

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