This ground-breaking book reconceptualizes the history of English painting from 1914 to the end of the 1920s. Whereas most accounts of the period have tended to see English art as marked by a tension between the native tradition and Modernism, The Modernity of English Art rethinks the 1920s by offering a cultural history of this period. Within this context, the book explores the fate of both Modernist and non-Modernist painters. Established figures such as Paul Nash, C.R.W. Nevinson, and Wyndham Lewis, as well as important but little-known artists like Charles Sims, John Armstrong, and Ethelbert White, are discussed and illustrated in a series of innovative readings developed in the light of this strongly revisionist account of an important but neglected period of English art. The Modernity of English Art is a strong, revisionist rethinking of the history of English painting in relation to its culture between 1914 and 1930.