AngloModern: Painting and Modernity in Britain and the United States

Janet Wolff

Published by Cornell University Press 2003

AngloModern

Painting and Modernity in Britain and the United States

Janet Wolff

https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501717468

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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...

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Janet Wolff is Professor of Arts at Columbia University. She is the author of several books, including Resident Alien: Feminist Cultural Criticism, Feminine Sentences: Essays on Women and Culture, Aesthetics and the Sociology of Art, and The Social Production of Art.

Reviews

Keith Moxey, Barnard College:

The myth that modernism in the arts represented a march toward abstraction has been repeatedly challenged. In Janet Wolff's remarkable new book, however, the ideological strategies by which this myth was created and disseminated are exposed and examined. Wolff demonstrates how masculinist bias and ethnic prejudice have been responsible for our inability to take modernity's realist tradition seriously.

David M. Lubin, Wake Forest University:

Janet Wolff is a refreshingly clear thinker and lucid writer. She consistently brings art history into dialogue with critical theory. Her intellectual background in the not-often complementary fields of social history and sociology drives her scholarship in yet a third field, art history, and does so in an enriching manner.

Michael Leja, University of Delaware:

AngloModern makes a valuable contribution to the scholarship on modern art, modernism, and identity. Most importantly, Janet Wolff rethinks modernist assumptions, moving in directions that are timely and essential.

Janet Wolff's lucid book, like many a post-modern cultural critique, aims to deconstruct rigid hegemonies or as the author puts it, 'narratives of fixity.'... AngloModern effectively exposes some problematic aspects of the prevailing modernist discoures.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
List of Illustrations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	ix
INTRODUCTION. AngloModern: The Painting of Modern Life Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1. Women at the Whitney, 1910–30: Feminism, Sociology, Aesthetics Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	15
2. Questions of Discovery: The Art of Kathleen McEnery Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	41
3. Gender and the Haunting of Cities: Or, the Retirement of the Flaneur Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	68
4. The Feminine in Modern Art: Benjamin, Simmel, and the Gender of Modernity Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	86
5. The Failure of a Hard Sponge: Class, Ethnicity, and the Art of Mark Gertler Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	109
6. The "Jewish Mark" in English Painting: Cultural Identity and Modern Art Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	134
AFTERWORD. Modernism, Realism, Revisionism Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	159
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	169

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Language: English
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Audience: General/trade;
Pages
- Main content: 192
Illustrations
- Other: 29 halftones, 1 table
Keywords: Art History; American Studies

eBook

Published: May 31, 2018
ISBN: 9781501717468