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AngloModern - Painting and Modernity in Britain and the United States (Hardcover)
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AngloModern - Painting and Modernity in Britain and the United States (Hardcover)
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Early twentieth-century art and art practice in Britain and the
United States were, Janet Wolff asserts, marginalized by critics
and historians in very similar ways after the rise of post-Cubist
modern art. In a masterly book on the sociology of modernism, Wolff
explores work that was primarily realist and figurative and
investigates the social, institutional, political, and aesthetic
processes by which that art fell by the wayside in the postwar
period. Throughout, she shows that questions of gender and
ethnicity play an important role in critical, curatorial, and
historical evaluations. For example, Wolff finds that the work of
the artists central to the development of the Whitney Museum was
relegated to a secondary status in the postwar period, when realism
was labeled "feminine" in contrast to the aggressive masculinity of
abstract expressionism.The three key periods considered in
AngloModern are the early twentieth century, when modernist art and
existing and new realist traditions coexisted in a certain tension;
the postwar period, in which modernism claimed superiority over
realism; and the late twentieth century, when a retrieval of the
realist and figurative traditions seemed to occur. Wolff concludes
by considering this re-emergence, as well as the limitations of
earlier discussions of the struggles of realist and figurative art
to endure the currents of modernism.
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