Böcker i Refiguring Modernism-serien

"Explores cubism and interwar modernism, focusing on the career of art dealer Lâeonce Rosenberg and his Parisian gallery, L'Effort Moderne"--

A collection of essays examining surrealism's cultural adaptations and genealogical descendants from the 1960s through the late 1980s. Explores surrealism's interactions with radical politics, protest movements, the sexual revolution, psychedelic subcultures, and other engaged and subcultural trends around the globe.

A collection of essays examining surrealism's cultural adaptations and genealogical descendants from the 1960s through the late 1980s. Explores surrealism's interactions with radical politics, protest movements, the sexual revolution, psychedelic subcultures, and other engaged and subcultural trends around the globe.

Surveys how U.S. museums exhibited Latin American art in the 1960s, focusing on rhetoric, aesthetics, and Cold War politics.

Examines the transformation of "the object" and the aesthetics of disaffection in the experimental art and photography of 1960s Japan.

Considers the relation of anarchist ideology to avant-garde sculpture through an examination of iconic artists and writers whose work transformed European modernism: Jacob Epstein, Oscar Wilde, Umberto Boccioni, F. T. Marinetti, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, and Ezra Pound.

Revisits the theme of alienation in modernist literature, finding an alternative aesthetic centered on the experience of double exile. Explores examples drawn from the cultural groupings of the New Negro movement, Parisian expatriates in the 1920s, and the queer expatriate scene in Los Angeles before Stonewall.

Explores the rise of formalism in the visual arts. Employs an expanded sense of form to rethink a range of areas, including the history of writing about art, constructions of high and low culture, and the idea of global modernism.

Examines art and literature of the Americas through the lens of the questionnaire, a genre as central as the manifesto to the history of the avant-garde. Demonstrates how modernism and the avant-garde were debated at the very moment of their development and consolidation.

Examines U.S. obscenity trials in the early twentieth century and how they framed a wide-ranging debate about the printed word's power to deprave, offend, and shape behavior.

Analyzes the impact of color technologies on the visual culture of nineteenth-century France, from the early commercialization of synthetic dyes to the Lumiere brothers' perfection of the autochrome color photography process. Examines the development of the basic aesthetic schemata of modern visual culture.

Examines the influence of experimental science, concerned with the workings of the body, the mind, and their various pathologies, on the works of late nineteenth-century artists Maurice Denis, Edouard Vuillard, August Strindberg, and Edvard Munch.

Examines how Russian Constructivist artists in the 1920s imagined a new physical environment through the creation of recycled and reappropriated objects.

Examines the literary and visual works of the Spanish vanguardists, which engaged with and incorporated the mass-produced commodities of the Machine Age and anticipated the modern fields of material culture, technology studies, and network theory.

Explores the emergence of an amateur class of curators in France between the world wars. Focuses on the Surrealist writers and artists who developed an alternative curatorial practice to that pursued by the community of professionally trained curators and exclusive art dealers.

A series of studies examining literary modernism in Ireland. Explores how cultural work assumed new meaning amid the strategic imperatives of the mid-twentieth century, and demonstrates how the late modernist field became today's information age.

Examines the rich networks of international artists and art practices that emerged in and around London during the 1960s and 1970s. Discusses diverse practices, movements, and spaces, from painting, sculpture, and film to performance, conceptual, and land art.

A collection of essays on the work of Djuna Barnes, including her early journalism, poetry, prose, visual art, and drama.

Explores the career of Hungarian-born French painter Simon Hantai (1922-2008) from his earliest paintings and writings in France in the 1950s through his final abstractions of the 2000s.

Recounts the history of the Netherlands Carillon, given to the United States in the 1950s by the Dutch government, and explores its paradoxical placement in the American memorial landscape.

Examines the centrality of drawing to the art of the late 1960s and early 1970s. Focuses on the work of Mel Bochner, Rosemarie Castoro, Sol LeWitt, Dorothea Rockburne, and Richard Tuttle.

A collection of essays on the work of Djuna Barnes, including her early journalism, poetry, prose, visual art, and drama.

Examines the rich networks of international artists and art practices that emerged in and around London during the 1960s and 1970s. Discusses diverse practices, movements, and spaces, from painting, sculpture, and film to performance, conceptual, and land art.

An interdisciplinary examination of the responses of literary authors in Germany, from 1895-1930, to the emerging media of image and sound recording.

Traces changes in Andean artists' vision of indigenous peoples as well as shifts in the critical discourse surrounding their work between 1920 and 1960.

Argues that Viennese Jewish modernism is explicable as an aesthetic reconfiguration of Jewish tradition in response to multifaceted crises of memory, identity and language. Examines the works of Hugo von Hofmannsthal (1874-1929), Arthur Schnitzler (1862-1931), Richard Beer-Hofmann (1866-1945) and Sigmund Freud (1856-1939).

Explores an international network of artists, artist groups, and critics linked by their aesthetic and theoretical responses to science, science fiction, and new media. Focuses on the Italian Spatial Artist Lucio Fontana and French Painter of Space Yves Klein.