| Description |
1 online resource (306 pages) |
| Series |
Heritage |
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Heritage.
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| Contents |
Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Antimodernism and artistic experience: an introduction -- Introduction: around and about modernity: some comments on themes of primitivism and modernism -- Performing the native woman: primitivism and mimicry in early twentieth-century visual culture -- The colonial lens: Gauguin, primitivism, and photography in the fin de siècle -- Emily Carr and the traffic in native images -- Introduction: staging antimodernism in the age of high capitalist nationalism -- Modernists and folk on the lower St. Lawrence: the problem of folk art -- Handicrafts and the logic of 'commercial antimodernism': the Nova Scotia case -- Bushwhackers in the gallery: antimodernism and the Group of Seven -- Introduction: modernity, nostalgia, and the standardization of time -- Artisans and art nouveau in fin-de-siècle Belgium: primitivism and nostalgia -- Van Gogh in the south: antimodernism and exoticism in the Arlesian paintings -- Plays without people: shadows and puppets of modernity in fin-de-siecle Paris -- Primitivism in Sweden: dormant desire or fictional identity? |
| Summary |
Scholars in art history, anthropology, history, and feminist media studies explore Western antimodernism of the turn of the 20th century as an artistic response to a perceived loss of 'authentic' experience |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-219) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Primitivism in art
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Modernism (Art)
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Art, Modern -- 19th century.
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Art, Modern -- 20th century.
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Primitivism in art -- Canada
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Modernism (Art) -- Canada
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Art, Canadian -- 20th century
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Art, Modern.
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Art, Canadian
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Art, Modern
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Modernism (Art)
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Primitivism in art
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Canada
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781442623101 |
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1442623101 |
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