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Great American Thing Modern Art and National Identity, 1915-1935

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ISBN-10: 0520231996

ISBN-13: 9780520231993

Edition: 2001

Authors: Wanda M. Corn

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Wanda M. Corn's long-awaited new book proposes a remarkable revisioning of the history of American modern art between the two world wars. Moving away from issues of style and abstraction, she bases her work on a broad examination of culture and on discourses of national identity. Corn argues that the key questions for interwar modernists in New York and Paris were whether or not it was possible to create an art that was both American and modern, and if it was, what such an art would look like. Both European and American artists debated these questions and made art that responded to them. Corn organizes each chapter around a careful reading of a work of art, probing first its peculiar poetry…    
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Book details

List price: $52.95
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 10/3/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 472
Size: 8.75" wide x 11.00" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 3.894
Language: English

Wanda M. Corn, Robert and Ruth Halperin Professor Emerita in Art History at Stanford University, is the author ofThe Great American Thing: Modern Art and National Identity, 1915-1935andWomen Building History: Public Art at the 1893 Columbian Exposition, both from UC Press.Tirza True Latimer, Associate Professor in the Departments of Fine Arts and Visual and Critical Studies at the California College of the Arts, is the author ofWomen Together/Women Apart: Portraits of Lesbian Paris.

Artists and Works Featured
Port of New York, 1924
Spiritual America, New York, 1924
Fountain, 1917
Razor, 1924
New York Interpreted, 1920-22
I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold, 1928
Cow's Skull--Red, White and Blue, 1931
Charles Sheeler
Home Sweet Home, 1931
The Paris Bit, 1959