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A New American Sculpture, 1914-1945 is the first publication to
situate the individual contributions of Gaston Lachaise, Robert
Laurent, Elie Nadelman, and William Zorach into a compelling
constellation of artists with shared aesthetic and social concerns.
Although each European-born, American artist cultivated his own
distinct style, their creative priorities were all deeply rooted in
quiet composition, synthetic approaches to anatomy, and
architectural unity of curves and volume. At a time when abstract
forms were popular, Lachaise, Laurent, Nadelman, and Zorach were
all ultimately in favor of maintaining the integrity of the human
body to explore modernist styles. This handsome book underscores
their unrelenting search for a novel American visual tradition at
the intersection of modernism, historic visual culture, and
contemporary popular imagery. Distributed for the Portland Museum
of Art Exhibition Schedule: Portland Museum of Art
(05/26/17-09/08/17) Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis,
Tennessee (10/14/17-01/07/18) Amon Carter Museum of American Art
(02/17/18-05/13/18)
Short-listed for the Fage & Oliver Prize for outstanding
scholarly work published on Africa. Finalist, African Studies
Association Book Prize. Finalist, ASA Bethwell A. Ogot Prize for
best book in east African studies. If modernism initially came to
Africa through colonial contact, what does Ethiopia's inimitable
historical condition--its independence save for five years under
Italian occupation--mean for its own modernist tradition? In
Modernist Art in Ethiopia--the first book-length study of the
topic--Elizabeth W. Giorgis recognizes that her home country's
supposed singularity, particularly as it pertains to its history
from 1900 to the present, cannot be conceived outside the broader
colonial legacy. She uses the evolution of modernist art in
Ethiopia to open up the intellectual, cultural, and political
histories of it in a pan-African context. Giorgis explores the
varied precedents of the country's political and intellectual
history to understand the ways in which the import and range of
visual narratives were mediated across different moments, and to
reveal the conditions that account for the extraordinary dynamism
of the visual arts in Ethiopia. In locating its arguments at the
intersection of visual culture and literary and performance
studies, Modernist Art in Ethiopia details how innovations in
visual art intersected with shifts in philosophical and ideological
narratives of modernity. The result is profoundly innovative
work--a bold intellectual, cultural, and political history of
Ethiopia, with art as its centerpiece.
Modernism ushered in some of the most exciting innovations in art
and literature, from Fauvism, Cubism, and Dada, to the novels of
James Joyce and Franz Kafka, to such provocative works as Marcel
Duchamp's "Fountain." But Modernism also left many people puzzled
in its wake. How can a routine bathroom fixture be considered a
work of art? Shouldn't a novel have a beginning, a middle, and an
end--or at least a story? In this Very Short Introduction,
Christopher Butler provides a coherent account of Modernism across
various aesthetic and cultural fields. Butler examines how and why
Modernism began, explaining what it is and showing how virtually
all aspects of 20th and 21st century life have been influenced by
its aesthetic legacy. Butler considers several aspects of
modernism, including some classic modernist works, movements and
notions of the avant garde, and the idea of "progress" in art.
Finally, Butler sheds light on modernist ideas of the self,
subjectivity, irrationalism, people and machines, and the political
dimensions of modernism as a whole.
About the Series: Combining authority with wit, accessibility, and
style, Very Short Introductions offer an introduction to some of
life's most interesting topics. Written by experts for the
newcomer, they demonstrate the finest contemporary thinking about
the central problems and issues in hundreds of key topics, from
philosophy to Freud, quantum theory to Islam.
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