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Material Type: | Internet resource |
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Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
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Janet Wolff |
ISBN: | 080143923X 9780801439230 0801487420 9780801487422 |
OCLC Number: | 50859019 |
Description: | xi, 172 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Contents: | Introduction: Anglomodern: the painting of modern life -- Women at the Whitney, 1910-30: feminism, sociology, aesthetics -- Questions of discovery: the art of Kathleen McEnergy -- Gender and the haunting or cities: or, the retirement of the Flâneur -- The feminine in modern art: Benjamin, Simmel, and the gender of modernity -- The failure of a hard sponge: class, Ethnicity, and the art of Mark Gertler -- The "Jewish mark" in English painting: cultural identity and modern art -- Afterword: Modernism, realism, revisionism. |
Responsibility: | Janet Wolff. |
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Abstract:
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...
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"Janet Wolff's lucid book, like many a post-modern cultural critique, aims to deconstruct rigid hegemonies or as the author puts it, 'narratives of fixity.'... AngloModern effectively exposes some problematic aspects of the prevailing modernist discoures." * Times Literary Supplement * Read more...
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