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Collecting as Modernist Practice
Jeremy Braddock
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Description for Collecting as Modernist Practice
Hardback. Offering the most systematic review to date of the Barnes Foundation, an intellectual genealogy and analysis of The New Negro anthology, and studies of a wide range of hitherto ignored anthologies and archives, Braddock convincingly shows how artistic and literary collections helped define the modernist movement in the United States. Series: Hopkins Studies in Modernism. Num Pages: 336 pages, 26, 26 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: ACXD2; AGC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 165 x 17. Weight in Grams: 586.
In this highly original study, Jeremy Braddock focuses on collective forms of modernist expression - the art collection, the anthology, and the archive - and their importance in the development of institutional and artistic culture in the United States. Using extensive archival research, Braddock's study synthetically examines the overlooked practices of major American art collectors and literary editors: Albert Barnes, Alain Locke, Duncan Phillips, Alfred Kreymborg, Amy Lowell, Ezra Pound, Katherine Dreier, and Carl Van Vechten. He reveals the way collections were devised as both models for modernism's future institutionalization and culturally productive objects and aesthetic forms in themselves. Rather ... Read more
In this highly original study, Jeremy Braddock focuses on collective forms of modernist expression - the art collection, the anthology, and the archive - and their importance in the development of institutional and artistic culture in the United States. Using extensive archival research, Braddock's study synthetically examines the overlooked practices of major American art collectors and literary editors: Albert Barnes, Alain Locke, Duncan Phillips, Alfred Kreymborg, Amy Lowell, Ezra Pound, Katherine Dreier, and Carl Van Vechten. He reveals the way collections were devised as both models for modernism's future institutionalization and culturally productive objects and aesthetic forms in themselves. Rather ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
Series
Hopkins Studies in Modernism
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9781421403649
SKU
V9781421403649
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About Jeremy Braddock
Jeremy Braddock is an associate professor of English at Cornell University.
Reviews for Collecting as Modernist Practice
A book that's going to rewrite what we think about art objects, poems, property, museums, anthologies-and race and modernity and on and on... So comprehensive is it that it will be impossible to ignore.
Tim Morton Ecology Without Nature The final chapter on the institutionalization of modernism in archival collections and rare book libraries is particularly illuminating for the ... Read more
Tim Morton Ecology Without Nature The final chapter on the institutionalization of modernism in archival collections and rare book libraries is particularly illuminating for the ... Read more