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Struggle Over the Modern
Dennis Raverty
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Description for Struggle Over the Modern
Hardback. In Struggle over the Modern, Dennis Raverty argues that there was not one, but two, competing "modernisms" vying for dominance of the critical field in American art during the first half of the twentieth century. Num Pages: 168 pages. BIC Classification: GBC; HB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 245 x 165 x 14. Weight in Grams: 426.
In Struggle Over the Modern, Dennis Raverty argues that there was not one, but two, competing 'modernisms' vying for dominance of the critical field in American art during the first half of the twentieth century. The most familiar strain of this debate to us today is formalism, which emphasized 'purity' in art and culminated in the writing of the influential late modern critic, Clement Greenberg. The other critical position, he contends, is not as familiar to us today, partly because it was so overshadowed by formalist thought in the postwar period. This position emphasized the importance of 'experience' over ... Read more
In Struggle Over the Modern, Dennis Raverty argues that there was not one, but two, competing 'modernisms' vying for dominance of the critical field in American art during the first half of the twentieth century. The most familiar strain of this debate to us today is formalism, which emphasized 'purity' in art and culminated in the writing of the influential late modern critic, Clement Greenberg. The other critical position, he contends, is not as familiar to us today, partly because it was so overshadowed by formalist thought in the postwar period. This position emphasized the importance of 'experience' over ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press United States
Number of pages
168
Condition
New
Number of Pages
168
Place of Publication
Cranbury, United States
ISBN
9781611472783
SKU
V9781611472783
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About Dennis Raverty
Dennis Raverty is assistant professor at New Jersey City University.
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