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

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Material type: Text

TextSeries: Art of the 20th century (Yale University Press) ; bk. 2.Publication details: New Haven, Conn. ; London : Yale University Press in association with the Open University, 2004.Description: 462 p. : ill. (some col.), map, ports. (some col.) ; 27 cmISBN:

0300102305 (pbk.)

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DDC classification:

709.04 EDW

Contents:

Expressionism and the crisis of subjectivity / Jason Gaiger -- Gender and the fauves : flirting with \'wild beasts\' / Gill Perry -- Orientalism, modernism and indigenous identity / Roger Benjamin -- Bonnard and Matisse : expression and emotion / Charles Harrison -- Approaches to Cubism / Jason Gaiger -- Dusty mannequins : modern art and primitivism / Niru Ratnam -- Cubist collage / Steve Edwards -- The idea of an abstract art / Paul Wood -- \'English\' abstraction : Nicholson, Hepworth and Moore in the 1930s / Emma Barker -- Art, love and social emancipation : on the concept \'avant-garde\' and the interwar avant-gardes / Gail Day -- Narrating the Dada game plan / Martin Gaughan -- Soviet constructivism / Christina Lodder -- \'Profane illumination\' : photography and photomontage in the USSR and Germany / Steve Edwards -- Surrealism 1924-1929 / Fionna Barber.

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Standard Loan	LSAD Library Main Collection	709.04 EDW (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		39002000287400

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Art of the Avant-Gardes discusses the development of modern art in the first third of the twentieth century. It introduces the main themes of art in the period and summarizes the political context in which art developed: the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and the subsequent consolidation of the European dictatorships. The book is the second volume in the Art of the Twentieth Century series.
With hundreds of full color illustrations, the book presents numerous case studies that illuminate the important idea of "expression" in art, related questions of Orientalism and the "primitive," aspects of Cubism, the development of abstract art, and the radical avant-garde movements--Dada, Soviet Constructivism, Surrealism.

Published in association with The Open University

This publication forms part of an Open University course AA318 Art of the twentieth century--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [449]-450) and index.

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Steve Edwards is research lecturer, The Open University. Paul Wood is senior lecturrer in art history, The Open University.