Art of the Avant-Gardes

Name: Art of the Avant-Gardes
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ISBN: 9780300102307

ISBN-10: 0300102305

ISBN-13: 9780300102307

Edition: 2003

Authors: Steve Edwards, Paul Wood, Open University Staff

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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.

Book details

List price: $35.00
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication date: 7/11/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 472
Size: 0.76" wide x 1.00" long x 0.11" tall
Weight: 3.036
Language: English



Introduction




Expression and expressionism



Expressionism and the crisis of subjectivity




Gender and the fauves : flirting with 'wild beasts'




Orientalism, modernism and indigenous identity




Bonnard and Matisse : expression and emotion




Aspects of Cubism



Approaches to Cubism




Dusty mannequins : modern art and primitivism




Cubist collage




The emergence of abstraction



The idea of an abstract art




'English' abstraction : Nicholson, Hepworth and Moore in the 1930s




The critical avant-gardes



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