Legends of the Modern

A Reappraisal of Modernity from Shakespeare to the Age of Duchamp

AvDidier Maleuvre

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

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What made art modern? What is modern art? The Legends of the Modern demystifies the ideas and "legends" that have shaped our appreciation of modern art and literature. Beginning with an examination of the early modern artists Shakespeare, Michelangelo, and Cervantes, Didier Maleuvre demonstrates how many of the foundational works of modern culture were born not from the legendry of expressive freedom, originality, creativity, subversion, or spiritual profundity but out of unease with these ideas. This ambivalence toward the modern has lain at the heart of artistic modernity from the late Renaissance onward, and the arts have since then shown both exhilaration and disappointment with their own creative power. The Legends of the Modern lays bare the many contradictions that pull at the fabric of modernity and demonstrates that modern art's dissatisfaction with modernity is in fact a vital facet of this cultural period.

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Utgivningsdatum:2019-10-31
Mått:152 x 229 x 19 mm
Vikt:517 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:264
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9781501353840

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Didier Maleuvre is Professor of Comparative Literature and French Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, USA. He is the author of Museum Memories: History, Technology, Art (1999), The Religion of Reality: Inquiry into the Self, Art, and Transcendence (2006), The Horizon: A History of our Infinite Longing (2011), and The Art of Civilization: A Bourgeois History (2016).

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Ambitious, persuasive, illuminating, and sometimes bracingly provocative in its efforts to demystify the ‘legends’ of modern art. Didier Maleuvre makes striking observations and arguments particularly in relation to the nature of ‘unfinished’ art and the ‘aristocracy’ of artists such as Marcel Duchamp, which diverge compellingly from established understandings about such matters—and which I imagine students would find particularly beneficial as they grapple with some of their frustrations with discussing modern art.

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IntroductionPart I: What Made Art Modern1. Hamlet, or Art against Itself2. Michelangelo, or the Labors of Freedom3. Don Quixote, or the Weakness of FictionPart II: What Makes Modern Art4. The Inward Turn5. The Legend of Freedom6. The Legend of the Artist7. The Legend of the New8. The Legend of Creativity9. The Legend of Artistic Block10. The Legend of Transcendence11. The Legend of Subversion12. The Legend of the End of ArtCodaNotesBibliographyIndex