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Collecting as Modernist Practice (Paperback)
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Collecting as Modernist Practice (Paperback)
Series: Hopkins Studies in Modernism
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In this highly original study, Jeremy Braddock focuses on
collective forms of modernist expression-the art collection, the
anthology, and the archive-and their importance in the development
of institutional and artistic culture in the United States. Using
extensive archival research, Braddock's study synthetically
examines the overlooked practices of major American art collectors
and literary editors: Albert Barnes, Alain Locke, Duncan Phillips,
Alfred Kreymborg, Amy Lowell, Ezra Pound, Katherine Dreier, and
Carl Van Vechten. He reveals the way collections were devised as
both models for modernism's future institutionalization and
culturally productive objects and aesthetic forms in themselves.
Rather than anchoring his study in the familiar figures of the
individual poet, artist, and work, Braddock gives us an entirely
new account of how modernism was made, one centered on the figure
of the collector and the practice of collecting. Collecting as
Modernist Practice demonstrates that modernism's cultural identity
was secured not so much through the selection of a canon of
significant works as by the development of new practices that
shaped the social meaning of art. Braddock has us revisit the
contested terrain of modernist culture prior to the dominance of
institutions such as the Museum of Modern Art and the university
curriculum so that we might consider modernisms that could have
been. Offering the most systematic review to date of the Barnes
Foundation, an intellectual genealogy and analysis of The New Negro
anthology, and studies of a wide range of hitherto ignored
anthologies and archives, Braddock convincingly shows how artistic
and literary collections helped define the modernist movement in
the United States.
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