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The challenge of the avant-garde edited by Paul Wood
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TextSeries: Art and its histories ; bk. 4Publication details: New Haven, CT Yale University Press London Open University 1999Description: 284 p. ill. (some col.) 27 cmISBN: - 0300077610
- 0300077629
- 709.034 WOO
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| Standard Loan | LSAD Library Main Collection | 709.034 WOO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 39002000270620 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
This volume traces the challenge posed to the academic canon by the emergent avant-garde of the early and mid-19th century. It considers the shifts in its development through the later 19th and 20th century and its eventual incorporation as a form of modern canon by the eve of World War II.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [273]-276) and index
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Preface (p. 6)
- Introduction: the avant-garde and modernism Paul Wood (p. 7)
- Part 1 The Early Avant-Garde
- 1 The avant-garde from the July Monarchy to the Second Empire (p. 35)
- 2 Material differences: the early avant-garde in France (p. 56)
- 3 Photography and modernity in nineteenth-century France (p. 70)
- 4 Modernity in Germany: the many sides of Adolph Menzel (p. 91)
- Part 2 The Avant-Garde in Its Own Right
- 5 The avant-garde and the Paris Commune (p. 113)
- 6 Caillebotte, masculinity, and the bourgeois gaze (p. 137)
- 7 Exhibiting modernity: the 1889 Universal Exhibition and the Eiffel Tower (p. 156)
- 8 Exhibiting 'les Independants': Gauguin and the Cafe Volpini show (p. 164)
- Part 3 'The Point is to Change it'
- 9 The avant-garde in the early twentieth century (p. 183)
- 10 The Futurists: transcontinental avant-gardism (p. 204)
- 11 The revolutionary avant-gardes: Dada, Constructivism and Surrealism (p. 226)
- Conclusion: for and against the avant-garde (p. 257)
- Recommended reading (p. 273)
- Index (p. 277)
Author notes provided by Syndetics
Paul Wood, Tim Benton, Steve Edwards and Gill Perry are members of the Art History Department at the Open University.Fionna Barber is Senior Lecturer in Art History at Manchester Metropolitan University. Gail Day is Lecturer in Art History at Wimbledon School of Art. Gen Doy is Reader in History and Theory of Visual Culture at De Montfort University, Leicester. Jason Gaiger is Research Fellow in Art History at the Open University.