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Rethinking Art Between the Wars
In the interwar period art revealed itself as part of the social and ideological order. The work of art became a point of intersection for the modern, unstable and ambiguous world. Works of art produced in these decades reflect a range of discourses on power and subjectivity. They contribute to the foundation of the post-war development of aesthetic pluralism and point out the socially conditioned framings of the Fine Arts. During the last decades, research in the field of interwar art has reworked and reconceptualised existing notions on the period. This book offers four new approaches which also contribute to reflections on methodological questions regarding the changes in the disciple of Art History since the early 1970s. The articles discuss topics such as Le Corbusier's connection with the French fascist movement, the position of women in the avant garde movement, Giorgio de Chirico's play with kitsch and avant garde practices, and the semiotics of the surrealist image.
Léonce Rosenberg’s Cubism
The history of modernism has generally been written as a story of artists and their creations alongside the collectors, gallerists, and curators who supported them. This is especially true of Cubism, where the received narrative centers on a tightly circumscribed group of artists and agents connected to the dealer Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler. Léonce Rosenberg’s Cubism shakes up the canon, revealing its artificial nature and pointing to a different, more inclusive understanding of the development of Cubism. Kahnweiler’s Cubism was narrowly focused. In contrast, Giovanni Casini shows us, the influential art dealer Léonce Rosenberg bought virtually any piece that could be labeled “Cubist”...
Visual Studies
In his latest book, James Elkins offers a road map through the field of visual studies, describing its major concerns and its principal theoretical sources. Then, with the skill and insight that have marked his successful books on art and visuality, Elkins takes the reader down a side road where visual studies can become a more interesting place. Why look only at the same handful of theorists? Why exclude from one's field of vision non-Western art or the wealth of scientific images?
Culture and Conflict
Cultural differences are often the trigger for conflict – whether politically motivated or arising from dissonant understandings of national culture. But what we regard as distinctive today in our cultural heritage or day-to-day cultural experience is deeply rooted in the rich diversity of the national currents of the nineteenth century. Culture and Conflict: Nation-Building in Denmark and Scandinavia, 1800–1930 explores the many strands of Danish and Scandinavian culture that helped to shape these cultural identities. The sixteen contributions in this volume analyse how competing national agendas influenced the development of political life as well as literature, the visual arts, and mu...
National Union Catalog
Includes entries for maps and atlases.
Clive Bell and the Making of Modernism
'Amusing, charming, stimulating, urbane' - THE TIMES'Revelatory' - GUARDIAN'Restores Clive Bell vividly to life' - Lucasta Miller______________Clive Bell is perhaps better known today for being a Bloomsbury socialite and the husband of artist Vanessa Bell, sister to Virginia Woolf. Yet Bell was a highly important figure in his own right: an internationally renowned art critic who defended daring new forms of expression at a time when Britain was closed off to all things foreign. His groundbreaking book Art brazenly subverted the narratives of art history and cemented his status as the great interpreter of modern art. Bell was also an ardent pacifist and a touchstone for the Wildean values of...
Giorgio De Chirico
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Surrealistiske collager
Surrealismen er en af de avantgardebevægelser, der bliver ved med at drage og fascinere, selvom den har snart 100 år på bagen. Målet med denne bog er at give en indføring i de væsentligste sider af surrealismen gennem et fokus på surrealistisk collage i både litteratur og billedkunst. Bogens primære eksempler er forfatteren Louis Aragons (1897-1982) tekstuelle collager og Max Ernsts (1891-1976) visuelle collager, som man ved selvsyn kunne se på Louisianas imponerende Max Ernst udstilling i 2009. Mange andre eksempler vil løbende blive inddraget, herunder værker af bl.a. Salvador Dalí (1904-1989), René Magritte (1898-1967), André Breton (1896-1966) og Hans Bellmer (1902-1975). Surrealismen ændrede sig en del efter 2. verdenskrig, hvor centrale dele af bevægelsen var taget til USA, og bogen koncentrerer sig om perioden 1919-1939, hvor bevægelsen udspringer og udvikles i Paris.
