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Author Wolff, Janet

Title AngloModern : painting and modernity in Britain and the United States / Janet Wolff
Published Ithaca [N.Y.] : Cornell University Press, 2003

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 172 pages) : illustrations
Contents Introduction: Anglomodern: the painting of modern life -- Women at the Whitney, 1910-30: feminism, sociology, aesthetics -- Questions of discovery: the art of Kathleen McEnergy -- Gender and the haunting or cities: or, the retirement of the Flâneur -- The feminine in modern art: Benjamin, Simmel, and the gender of modernity -- The failure of a hard sponge: class, Ethnicity, and the art of Mark Gertler -- The "Jewish mark" in English painting: cultural identity and modern art -- Afterword: Modernism, realism, revisionism
Summary In a masterly book on the sociology of modernism, Janet Wolff explores work that was primarily realist and figurative and investigates the processes by which art fell by the wayside in the post-war period
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Modernism (Art) -- United States
Modernism (Art) -- Great Britain
Painting, American -- 20th century.
Painting, British -- 20th century
Gender identity in art.
Ethnicity in art.
ART -- History -- General.
ART -- History -- Modern (late 19th Century to 1945)
Ethnicity in art
Gender identity in art
Modernism (Art)
Painting, American
Painting, British
Malerei
Moderne
Ethnische Identität
Geschlechterforschung
Ästhetik
Modernisme (cultuur)
Schilderkunst.
Vrouwen.
Great Britain
United States
Großbritannien
USA
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781501717468
1501717464