Refiguring Modernism – serie
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Documenting Spain
Artists, Exhibition Culture, and the Modern Nation, 1929–1939
Häftad, 2005
985 kr
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The news media have given us potent demonstrations of the ambiguity of ostensibly truthful representations of public events. Jordana Mendelson uses this ambiguity as a framework for the study of Spanish visual culture from 1929 to 1939—a decade marked, on the one hand, by dictatorship, civil war, …
Social and the Real
Political Art of the 1930s in the Western Hemisphere
Av Alejandro Anreus, Diana L. Linden m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
815 kr
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During the 1930s, American artists such as Ben Shahn developed a mode of representation generally known as Social Realism. This term is given broad new meaning in the anthology brought together by Alejandro Anreus, Diana L. Linden, and Jonathan Weinberg. They and their collaborators argue that …
Beyond Pleasure
Freud, Lacan, Barthes
Häftad, 2007
601 kr
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In Beyond the Pleasure Principle, Freud observed that the life-enhancing pleasure principle seems disrupted by something internal to the psyche. He took into account the possibility of a “death instinct” bent on returning the living organism to its origin of undifferentiated matter. In Beyond …
Substance and the Shadow
Av Paul Smith
Häftad, 2007
582 kr
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In 1878, the author Marius Roux, a noted friend of Emile Zola and Paul Cézanne, published La proie et l’ombre, a little-known roman à clef featuring a thinly disguised Cézanne as the main character, Germain Rambert. The text prominently features several conversations drawn from famous Impressionist …
Space-Age Aesthetics
Lucio Fontana, Yves Klein, and the Postwar European Avant-Garde
Häftad, 2009
1043 kr
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“In the Space Age,” wrote Italian artist Lucio Fontana, “spatial art.” Fontana’s desire to create art in space came in response to unprecedented technological advances and contemporary fantasies of space travel. Fifteen years before Andy Warhol said he wanted to be as much a part of his times as …
Viennese Jewish Modernism
Freud, Hofmannsthal, Beer-Hofmann, and Schnitzler
Häftad, 2009
879 kr
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In Viennese Jewish Modernism, Abigail Gillman challenges the conventional understanding of modernism as simply a break from tradition. Until recently, the study of Jewish modernism has centered on questions of Jewish and non-Jewish identity, generally ignoring the role Judaism played in the …
Mediating Modernity
German Literature and the “New” Media, 1895–1930
Häftad, 2009
770 kr
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Mediating Modernity examines this probing question: “What happens to the writing of a printed text when the phonograph and cinematograph—and both names refer, not accidentally, to writing—are able to fix the hitherto unwriteable data flow of time and the visual image?” In her study of literary …
Seurat Re-viewed
Av Paul Smith
Häftad, 2010
1183 kr
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Georges Seurat is best known as the painter of A Sunday on the Grande Jatte—1884, one of the most recognizable and reproduced works of art in the world. In recent years the painting has been the subject of a highly successful exhibition, the inspiration for a Broadway musical (by Stephen Sondheim), …
From Diversion to Subversion
Games, Play, and Twentieth-Century Art
Häftad, 2011
1043 kr
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Games and play occupied a central, if misunderstood, role in modern art in the twentieth century. Many art-historical narratives have downplayed the ways in which artists returned to play and to games as analogues to art practice, as metaphors for creativity, or as models for art criticism. The …
Curatorial Avant-Garde
Surrealism and Exhibition Practice in France, 1925–1941
Av Adam Jolles
Häftad, 2015
484 kr
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All too often, the historical avant-garde is taken to be incommensurate with and antithetical to the world inhabited by the museum. In The Curatorial Avant-Garde, by contrast, Adam Jolles demonstrates the surrealists’ radical transformation of the ways in which spectators encountered works of art …
Modernism and Its Merchandise
The Spanish Avant-Garde and Material Culture, 1920-1930
Häftad, 2018
583 kr
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The writers and artists of the Spanish avant-garde, enthralled with the streamlined, mass-produced commodities of the Machine Age, incorporated these objects into their literary and visual works. In doing so, they launched a broad inquiry into the relations between mind and matter, people and …
Modernism and Its Merchandise
The Spanish Avant-Garde and Material Culture, 1920-1930
Inbunden, 2014
1315 kr
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The writers and artists of the Spanish avant-garde, enthralled with the streamlined, mass-produced commodities of the Machine Age, incorporated these objects into their literary and visual works. In doing so, they launched a broad inquiry into the relations between mind and matter, people and …
Ireland and the Problem of Information
Irish Writing, Radio, Late Modernist Communication
Av Damien Keane
Häftad, 2016
434 kr
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Though the work of Irish writers has been paramount in conventional accounts of literary modernism, Ireland itself only rarely occupies a meaningful position in accounts of modernism’s historical trajectory. With an itinerary moving not simply among Dublin, Belfast, and London but also Paris, New …
Nature’s Experiments and the Search for Symbolist Form
Inbunden, 2017
1329 kr
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This provocative study argues that some of the most inventive artwork of the 1890s was strongly influenced by the methods of experimental science and ultimately foreshadowed twentieth-century modernist practices.Looking at avant-garde figures such as Maurice Denis, Édouard Vuillard, August …
Nature’s Experiments and the Search for Symbolist Form
Häftad, 2018
609 kr
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This provocative study argues that some of the most inventive artwork of the 1890s was strongly influenced by the methods of experimental science and ultimately foreshadowed twentieth-century modernist practices.Looking at avant-garde figures such as Maurice Denis, Édouard Vuillard, August …
Color in the Age of Impressionism
Commerce, Technology, and Art
Häftad, 2018
487 kr
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This study analyzes the impact of color-making technologies on the visual culture of nineteenth-century France, from the early commercialization of synthetic dyes to the Lumière brothers’ perfection of the autochrome color photography process. Focusing on Impressionist art, Laura Anne Kalba …
Soviet Salvage
Imperial Debris, Revolutionary Reuse, and Russian Constructivism
Inbunden, 2017
1400 kr
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In Soviet Salvage, Catherine Walworth explores how artists on the margins of the Constructivist movement of the 1920s rejected “elitist” media and imagined a new world, knitting together avant-garde art, imperial castoffs, and everyday life.Applying anthropological models borrowed from Claude …
London Art Worlds
Mobile, Contingent, and Ephemeral Networks, 1960–1980
Av Jo Applin, Catherine Spencer m. fl.
Inbunden, 2017
1470 kr
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The essays in this collection explore the extraordinarily rich networks of international artists and art practices that emerged in and around London during the 1960s and ’70s, a period that saw an explosion of new media and fresh attitudes and approaches to making and thinking about art.The …
London Art Worlds
Mobile, Contingent, and Ephemeral Networks, 1960–1980
Av Jo Applin, Catherine Spencer m. fl.
Häftad, 2020
615 kr
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The essays in this collection explore the extraordinarily rich networks of international artists and art practices that emerged in and around London during the 1960s and ’70s, a period that saw an explosion of new media and fresh attitudes and approaches to making and thinking about art.The …
Literary Obscenities
U.S. Case Law and Naturalism after Modernism
Inbunden, 2018
1197 kr
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This comparative historical study explores the broad sociocultural factors at play in the relationships among U.S. obscenity laws and literary modernism and naturalism in the early twentieth century. Putting obscenity case law’s crisis of legitimation and modernism’s crisis of representation into …
Literary Obscenities
U.S. Case Law and Naturalism after Modernism
Häftad, 2019
530 kr
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This comparative historical study explores the broad sociocultural factors at play in the relationships among U.S. obscenity laws and literary modernism and naturalism in the early twentieth century. Putting obscenity case law’s crisis of legitimation and modernism’s crisis of representation into …
Surveying the Avant-Garde
Questions on Modernism, Art, and the Americas in Transatlantic Magazines
Av Lori Cole
Inbunden, 2018
1201 kr
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Surveying the Avant-Garde examines the art and literature of the Americas in the early twentieth century through the lens of the questionnaire, a genre as central as the manifesto to the history of the avant-garde.Questions such as “How do you imagine Latin America?” and “What should American art …
Surveying the Avant-Garde
Questions on Modernism, Art, and the Americas in Transatlantic Magazines
Av Lori Cole
Häftad, 2019
452 kr
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Surveying the Avant-Garde examines the art and literature of the Americas in the early twentieth century through the lens of the questionnaire, a genre as central as the manifesto to the history of the avant-garde.Questions such as “How do you imagine Latin America?” and “What should American art …
Shattered Objects
Djuna Barnes’s Modernism
Av Elizabeth Pender, Cathryn Setz
Inbunden, 2019
1197 kr
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Djuna Barnes once said that “there is always more surface to a shattered object than a whole object,” and the statement is provocative when considering her own writing and art. Arriving as an accomplished writer and journalist in 1920s Paris, Barnes produced an eclectic body of work whose objects …
Shattered Objects
Djuna Barnes’s Modernism
Av Elizabeth Pender, Cathryn Setz
Häftad, 2020
504 kr
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Djuna Barnes once said that “there is always more surface to a shattered object than a whole object,” and the statement is provocative when considering her own writing and art. Arriving as an accomplished writer and journalist in 1920s Paris, Barnes produced an eclectic body of work whose objects …
Art and Form
From Roger Fry to Global Modernism
Av Sam Rose
Inbunden, 2019
518 kr
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This important new study reevaluates British art writing and the rise of formalism in the visual arts from 1900 to 1939. Taking Roger Fry as his starting point, Sam Rose rethinks how ideas about form influenced modernist culture and the movement’s significance to art history today.In the context of …
Art and Form
From Roger Fry to Global Modernism
Av Sam Rose
Häftad, 2020
217 kr
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This important new study reevaluates British art writing and the rise of formalism in the visual arts from 1900 to 1939. Taking Roger Fry as his starting point, Sam Rose rethinks how ideas about form influenced modernist culture and the movement’s significance to art history today.In the context of …
Drawing Degree Zero
The Line from Minimal to Conceptual Art
Av Anna Lovatt
Inbunden, 2019
698 kr
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Drawing Degree Zero examines a pivotal moment in the history of drawing, when the medium was disengaged from its connoisseurial associations and positioned at the forefront of contemporary art. From Mel Bochner’s seminal exhibition Working Drawings and Other Visible Things on Paper Not Necessarily …
Decorative Arts of the Tunisian École
Fabrications of Modernism, Gender, and Power
Inbunden, 2019
526 kr
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The arts drove a seismic cultural shift in mid-twentieth-century Tunis, as women entered ateliers and workshops previously dominated by men and as collaborations across art schools destabilized the boundary between art and craft. This volume uses the “Tunisian École”—a configuration of artists, art …
Bells for America
The Cold War, Modernism, and the Netherlands Carillon in Arlington
Inbunden, 2019
393 kr
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The Netherlands Carillon stands out in the American memorial landscape. Situated between Arlington National Cemetery and the Marine Corps War Memorial, the modernist design of this 127-foot steel bell tower is strangely at odds with its surroundings, much in the same way that its prominent place is …
