Full Description
A Companion to Modern Art presents a series of original essays by international and interdisciplinary authors who offer a comprehensive overview of the origins and evolution of artistic works, movements, approaches, influences, and legacies of Modern Art.
Presents a contemporary debate and dialogue rather than a seamless consensus on Modern Art
Aims for reader accessibility by highlighting a plurality of approaches and voices in the field
Presents Modern Art's foundational philosophic ideas and practices, as well as the complexities of key artists such as Cezanne and Picasso, and those who straddled the modern and contemporary
Looks at the historical reception of Modern Art, in addition to the latest insights of art historians, curators, and critics to artists, educators, and more
Contents
List of Figures ix
Acknowledgments xi
Notes on Contributors xiii
Introduction 1
Pam Meecham
Part I Ancient & Modern 15
1 Revitalizing Romanticism; or, Reflections on the Nietzschean Aesthetic and the Modern Imagination 17
Colin Trodd
2 A Cartography of Desires and Taboos: The Modern Primitive and the Antipodes 37
Andrew McNamara and Ann Stephen
3 Primitive/Modern/Contemporary 55
Paul Wood
4 Did Modernism Redefine Classicism? The Ancient Modernity of Classical Greek Art 73
Whitney Davis
5 Robert Goldwater and the Search for the Primitive: The Asmat Project at the Museum of Primitive Art 91
Nick Stanley
6 Surrealist Ireland: the Archaic, the Modern and the Marvelous 109
Fionna Barber
Part II Displaying the Modern 125
7 Picturing the Installation Shot 127
Julie Sheldon
8 Contemporary Displays of Modern Art 145
Pam Meecham
9 Camera-Eye: Photography and Modernism 167
Liz Wells
10 Photographic Installation Strategies En-bloc and In-the-round 187
Wiebke Leister
11 Documenta 6: Memories of Another Modernism 209
Judith Brocklehurst
Part III Re-assessments: Modernism and Globalization 227
12 Bijiasuo and Truth: Modernism Reassessed in an Era of Globalization 229
Jonathan Harris
13 Extensive Modernity: On the Refunctioning of Artists as Producers 245
Angela Dimitrakaki
14 Architecture's Modernisms 263
Richard J. Williams
15 The Wide Margins of the Century: Rural Modernism, Pastoral Peasants, and Economic Migrations 283
Rosemary Shirley
16 Destabilizing Essentialism through Localizing Modernism 299
Naoko Uchiyama
Part IV Locating Modernism: Multiple Modernisms and Nation Building 319
17 The Many Modernisms of Australian Art 321
Laura Back
18 Greek-Cypriot Locality: (Re) Defining our Understanding of European Modernity 339
Elena Stylianou and Nicos Philippou
19 A Northern Avant-garde: Spaces and Cultural Transfer 359
Annika O¨hrner
20 Modernisms, Genealogy, and Utopias in Finland 375
Renja Suominen-Kokkonen
21 The Engaged Artist: Considerations of Relevance 391
Greta Berman
22 Visualizing Figures of Caribbean Slavery through Modernism 411
Leon Wainwright
Part V The Modern Artist, the Modern Child, and a Modern Art Education 425
23 A Modern Art Education 427
Claire Robins
24 Misrecognition: Child's Play, Modern Art, and Vygotskian Psychology 453
Nicholas Addison
25 MoMA and the Modern Child: The Critical Role of Education Programming in MoMA's Modernism 473
Briley Rasmussen
26 Paul C'ezanne's Young Girl at the Piano - Overture to "Tannh¨auser" or "Le Haschisch des femmes" 493
Anna Green
Index 517
