Refiguring Modernism. Art and Form : : From Roger Fry to Global Modernism / / Sam Rose.

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...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn State University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019
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Place / Publishing House:University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2019]
©2019
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
Series:Refiguring Modernism ; 28
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Physical Description:1 online resource (224 p.) :; 27 illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Part One. Art Writing
  • 1. Form and Modernist Aesthetics On or About 1910
  • 2. The Science of Art Criticism After the 1910s
  • Part Two Art and Life
  • 3. Mass Civilization and Minority Visual Culture
  • 4. Design Theory and Marxist Art Writing: For and Against Mass Culture
  • 5. Modernism and Form in Africa, Britain, and South Asia—
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index