Modernism And Still Life

Author : Tobin Claudia Tobin
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474455158
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Modernism and Still Life written by Tobin Claudia Tobin and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-02 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the 'still life spirit' in modern painting, prose, dance, sculpture and poetryChallenges the conventional positioning of still life a 'minor' genre in art historyProposes a radical alternative to narratives of modernism that privilege speed and motion by revealing forms of stillness and still life at the heart of modern literature and visual cultureProvides the first study of still life to consider the genre across modern literature, visual cultures and danceUncovers connections and cultural exchange between networks of European and American artists including the Bloomsbury Group and Wallace StevensThe late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries have been characterised as the 'age of speed' but they also witnessed a reanimation of still life across different art forms. This book takes an original approach to still life in modern literature and the visual arts by examining the potential for movement and transformation in the idea of stillness and the ordinary. It ranges widely in its material, taking Czanne and literary responses to his still life painting as its point of departure. It investigates constellations of writers, visual artists and dancers including D. H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, David Jones, Winifred Nicholson, Wallace Stevens, and lesser-known figures including Charles Mauron and Margaret Morris. Claudia Tobin reveals that at the heart of modern art were forms of stillness that were intimately bound up with movement: the still life emerges charged with animation, vibration and rhythm; an unstable medium, unexpectedly vital and well suited to the expression of modern concerns.

Author : Claudia Tobin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781474481212
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Modernism and Still Life written by Claudia Tobin and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work takes an original approach to still life in modern literature and the visual arts by examining the potential for movement and transformation in the idea of stillness and the ordinary.

Author : Susan Landauer
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520239388
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Not-So-Still Life written by Susan Landauer and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2003-11-10 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Presenting, interpreting, and celebrating the world-renowned and the lesser-known California artists who have uniquely defined and redefined the still life, this volume offers an exploration of the sensual pleasures, the aesthetic challenges, and the intellectual and perceptual associations of a century of art through the prism of a single genre."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Samuel Jay Keyser
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262043491
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mental Life of Modernism written by Samuel Jay Keyser and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2020-03-03 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An argument that Modernism is a cognitive phenomenon rather than a cultural one. At the beginning of the twentieth century, poetry, music, and painting all underwent a sea change. Poetry abandoned rhyme and meter; music ceased to be tonally centered; and painting no longer aimed at faithful representation. These artistic developments have been attributed to cultural factors ranging from the Industrial Revolution and the technical innovation of photography to Freudian psychoanalysis. In this book, Samuel Jay Keyser argues that the stylistic innovations of Western modernism reflect not a cultural shift but a cognitive one. Behind modernism is the same cognitive phenomenon that led to the scientific revolution of the seventeenth century: the brain coming up against its natural limitations. Keyser argues that the transformation in poetry, music, and painting (the so-called sister arts) is the result of the abandonment of a natural aesthetic based on a set of rules shared between artist and audience, and that this is virtually the same cognitive shift that occurred when scientists abandoned the mechanical philosophy of the Galilean revolution. The cultural explanations for Modernism may still be relevant, but they are epiphenomenal rather than causal. Artists felt that traditional forms of art had been exhausted, and they began to resort to private formats—Easter eggs with hidden and often inaccessible meaning. Keyser proposes that when artists discarded their natural rule-governed aesthetic, it marked a cognitive shift; general intelligence took over from hardwired proclivity. Artists used a different part of the brain to create, and audiences were forced to play catch up.

Author : Ornat Lev-er
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789462988804
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Still-life as Portrait in Early Modern Italy written by Ornat Lev-er and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This highly original study explores how still-life paintings form a dynamic network in which artworks, musical instruments, books, and scientific apparatuses constitute links to a dazzling range of figures and sources of knowledge.

Author : Christopher Butler
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192804413
Total Pages : 137 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Modernism: A Very Short Introduction written by Christopher Butler and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-07-29 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compact introduction to modernism--why it began, what it is, and how it hasshaped virtually all aspects of 20th and 21st century life

Author : Peter Gay
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393052053
Total Pages : 664 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Modernism the Lure of Heresy written by Peter Gay and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2008 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a brilliant, provocative long essay on the rise and fall and survival of modernism, by the English-languages' greatest living cultural historian.

Author : Lisa Rado
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136515534
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Modernism, Gender, and Culture written by Lisa Rado and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-05 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on cultural practices, and gender issues during a period of the early 20th-century that witnessed radical transformations in sex roles, this anthology of original (and one classic) essays will generate a greater understanding of women's contributions to modernist culture, and explore how that culture was affected by gender issues. The essays provide a wealth of insights into literature, painting, architecture, design, anthropology, sociology, religion, science, popular culture, music, issues of race and ethnicity, and the influence of 20th-century women and sexual politics.

Author : William H. Gerdts
Publisher : Museum of Fine Arts (Houston)
ISBN 13 : 9780300225914
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Two Centuries of American Still-life Painting written by William H. Gerdts and published by Museum of Fine Arts (Houston). This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Showcasing a treasured private collection amassed over several decades, this publication represents the beauty and complexity of still-life painting in the United States. More than 65 works from the Hevrdejs collection, many of which have never been on public view, are accompanied by comprehensive and accessible explanations that contextualize their role in the ongoing development of the genre. Featuring works by prominent and diverse artists such as Raphaelle Peale, Thomas Hart Benton, Georgia O'Keeffe, and Andrew Wyeth, this study expands the overall notion of the still life by examining its use in a variety of painting styles from the 19th century to the present day. With color illustrations and an essay and entries by a distinguished scholar, this book demonstrates why the genre has been a compelling preoccupation for American artists over two centuries. Distributed for the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Exhibition Schedule: The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (01/14/17-04/09/17) Memphis Brooks Museum of Art (04/20/17-07/30/17) Tacoma Museum of Art (October 2017-January 2018)

Author : Jean S. Tucker
Publisher : University of Missouri Center for
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Modernist Still Life-- Photographed written by Jean S. Tucker and published by University of Missouri Center for. This book was released on 1989 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: