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Art of the avant-gardes / edited by Steve Edwards and Paul Wood

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Art of the 20th Century ; v2Publication details: Yale ; London :Yale University Press in association with The Open University, [2004]Description: 462 p. : ill., ports ; 26 cmISBN:
  • 9780300101416 .
  • 9780300101416 .
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Partial contents:
Expression and the crisis of subjectivity -- Gender and the fauves: flirting with 'wild beasts' -- Orientalism, modernism and indigenous identity -- Bonnard and Matisse: expression and emotion -- Approaches to cubism -- Dusty mannequins: modern art and primitivism -- Cubist collage -- The idea of an abstract art -- 'English' abstraction: Nicholson, Hepworth and Moore in the 1930's -- Art, love and social emancipation: on the concept 'avant-garde' and the interwar avant-gardes -- Narrating the Dada game plan -- Soviet constructivism -- 'Profane illumination': photography and photomontage in the USSR and Germany -- Surrealism 1924-1929
Summary: Discussing the development of modern art in the first third of the 20th century, this volume opens with an essay that introduces the main themes of art in the period and summarises the political context in which it developed.
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Includes bibliographical references and index

Expression and the crisis of subjectivity -- Gender and the fauves: flirting with 'wild beasts' -- Orientalism, modernism and indigenous identity -- Bonnard and Matisse: expression and emotion -- Approaches to cubism -- Dusty mannequins: modern art and primitivism -- Cubist collage -- The idea of an abstract art -- 'English' abstraction: Nicholson, Hepworth and Moore in the 1930's -- Art, love and social emancipation: on the concept 'avant-garde' and the interwar avant-gardes -- Narrating the Dada game plan -- Soviet constructivism -- 'Profane illumination': photography and photomontage in the USSR and Germany -- Surrealism 1924-1929

Discussing the development of modern art in the first third of the 20th century, this volume opens with an essay that introduces the main themes of art in the period and summarises the political context in which it developed.

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