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12%OFFJanet Wolff - AngloModern - 9780801487422 - V9780801487422
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AngloModern

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Description for AngloModern Paperback. Num Pages: 192 pages, 30. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1KBB; AC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 20. Weight in Grams: 302.

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 realist and figurative and investigates the social, institutional, political, and aesthetic processes by which that art fell by the wayside in the postwar period. Throughout, she shows that questions of gender and ethnicity play an important role in critical, curatorial, and historical evaluations. For example, Wolff finds that the work of the artists ... Read more

The three key periods considered in AngloModern are the early twentieth century, when modernist art and existing and new realist traditions coexisted in a certain tension; the postwar period, in which modernism claimed superiority over realism; and the late twentieth century, when a retrieval of the realist and figurative traditions seemed to occur. Wolff concludes by considering this re-emergence, as well as the limitations of earlier discussions of the struggles of realist and figurative art to endure the currents of modernism.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9780801487422
SKU
V9780801487422
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About Janet Wolff
Janet Wolff is Professor of Arts at Columbia University. She is the author of several books, including Resident Alien: Feminist Cultural Criticism, Feminine Sentences: Essays on Women and Culture, Aesthetics and the Sociology of Art, and The Social Production of Art.

Reviews for AngloModern
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

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