AngloModern : : Painting and Modernity in Britain and the United States /

AngloModern : : Painting and Modernity in Britain and the United States / / Janet Wolff.

Early twentieth-century art and art practice in Britain and the United States were, Janet Wolff asserts, marginalized by critics and historians in very similar ways after the rise of post-Cubist modern art. In a masterly book on the sociology of modernism, Wolff explores work that was primarily real...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
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Wolff, Janet,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]
©2003
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (192 p.) :; 29 halftones, 1 table
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • INTRODUCTION. AngloModern: The Painting of Modern Life
  • 1. Women at the Whitney, 1910–30: Feminism, Sociology, Aesthetics
  • 2. Questions of Discovery: The Art of Kathleen McEnery
  • 3. Gender and the Haunting of Cities: Or, the Retirement of the Flaneur
  • 4. The Feminine in Modern Art: Benjamin, Simmel, and the Gender of Modernity
  • 5. The Failure of a Hard Sponge: Class, Ethnicity, and the Art of Mark Gertler
  • 6. The "Jewish Mark" in English Painting: Cultural Identity and Modern Art
  • AFTERWORD. Modernism, Realism, Revisionism
  • Index

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