Companion to Modern Art

Pam Meecham is Professor of Museum Studies at the UCL Institute of Education, where she conducts research into institutional histories and the display of modernism. Meecham is the co-author of Making American Art (2009) and Modern Art: A Critical Introduction (2000, 2005).

• List of Figures ixAcknowledgments xiNotes on Contributors xiiiIntroduction 1Pam MeechamPart I Ancient & Modern 151 Revitalizing Romanticism; or, Reflections on the Nietzschean Aesthetic and the Modern Imagination 17Colin Trodd2 A Cartography of Desires and Taboos: The Modern Primitive and the Antipodes 37Andrew McNamara and Ann Stephen3 Primitive/Modern/Contemporary 55Paul Wood4 Did Modernism Redefine Classicism? The Ancient Modernity of Classical Greek Art 73Whitney Davis5 Robert Goldwater and the Search for the Primitive: The Asmat Project at the Museum of Primitive Art 91Nick Stanley6 Surrealist Ireland: the Archaic, the Modern and the Marvelous 109Fionna BarberPart II Displaying the Modern 1257 Picturing the Installation Shot 127Julie Sheldon8 Contemporary Displays of Modern Art 145Pam Meecham9 Camera-Eye: Photography and Modernism 167Liz Wells10 Photographic Installation Strategies En-bloc and In-the-round 187Wiebke Leister11 Documenta 6: Memories of Another Modernism 209Judith BrocklehurstPart III Re-assessments: Modernism and Globalization 22712 Bijiasuo and Truth: Modernism Reassessed in an Era of Globalization 229Jonathan Harris13 Extensive Modernity: On the Refunctioning of Artists as Producers 245Angela Dimitrakaki14 Architecture’s Modernisms 263Richard J. Williams15 The Wide Margins of the Century: Rural Modernism, Pastoral Peasants, and Economic Migrations 283Rosemary Shirley16 Destabilizing Essentialism through Localizing Modernism 299Naoko UchiyamaPart IV Locating Modernism: Multiple Modernisms and Nation Building 31917 The Many Modernisms of Australian Art 321Laura Back18 Greek-Cypriot Locality: (Re) Defining our Understanding of European Modernity 339Elena Stylianou and Nicos Philippou19 A Northern Avant-garde: Spaces and Cultural Transfer 359Annika O¨hrner20 Modernisms, Genealogy, and Utopias in Finland 375Renja Suominen-Kokkonen21 The Engaged Artist: Considerations of Relevance 391Greta Berman22 Visualizing Figures of Caribbean Slavery through Modernism 411Leon WainwrightPart V The Modern Artist, the Modern Child, and a Modern Art Education 42523 A Modern Art Education 427Claire Robins24 Misrecognition: Child’s Play, Modern Art, and Vygotskian Psychology 453Nicholas Addison25 MoMA and the Modern Child: The Critical Role of Education Programming in MoMA’s Modernism 473Briley Rasmussen26 Paul C´ezanne’s Young Girl at the Piano – Overture to “Tannh¨auser” or “Le Haschisch des femmes” 493Anna GreenIndex 517