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Eccentric Modernisms: Making Differences in the History of American Art
Tirza True Latimer
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Description for Eccentric Modernisms: Making Differences in the History of American Art
Hardback. "What if we ascribe significance to aesthetic and social divergences rather than waving them aside as anomalous? This book places queer demands on art history, tracing the relational networks connecting cosmopolitan eccentrics who cultivated discrepant strains of modernism in America during the 1930s and 1940s. Num Pages: 200 pages, 11 color photographs, 32 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; ACX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 218 x 276 x 17. Weight in Grams: 702.
What if we ascribe significance to aesthetic and social divergences rather than waving them aside as anomalous? What if we look closely at what does not appear central, or appears peripherally, or does not appear at all, viewing ellipses, outliers, absences, and outtakes as significant? Eccentric Modernisms places queer demands on art history, tracing the relational networks connecting cosmopolitan eccentrics who cultivated discrepant strains of modernism in America during the 1930s and 1940s. Building on the author's earlier studies of Gertrude Stein and other lesbians who participated in transatlantic cultural exchanges between the world wars, this book moves in ... Read more
What if we ascribe significance to aesthetic and social divergences rather than waving them aside as anomalous? What if we look closely at what does not appear central, or appears peripherally, or does not appear at all, viewing ellipses, outliers, absences, and outtakes as significant? Eccentric Modernisms places queer demands on art history, tracing the relational networks connecting cosmopolitan eccentrics who cultivated discrepant strains of modernism in America during the 1930s and 1940s. Building on the author's earlier studies of Gertrude Stein and other lesbians who participated in transatlantic cultural exchanges between the world wars, this book moves in ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of California Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Weight
701g
Number of Pages
200
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520288867
SKU
V9780520288867
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About Tirza True Latimer
Tirza True Latimer is Associate Professor and Chair of the Visual and Critical Studies Graduate Program at California College of the Arts in San Francisco.
Reviews for Eccentric Modernisms: Making Differences in the History of American Art
Works like Latimer's will undoubtedly become important records of the changing vocabulary of modernism, in which the structures that guided modernism's conception in the United States (MoMA, Greenberg's criticism, the ideal of abstraction, the words original, style, kitsch, and pure ) are proven unstable. . . . Indeed, scholars of queer history and ... Read more