| Description |
284 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm |
| Series |
Art and its histories ; bk. 4 |
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Art and its histories ; bk. 4
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| Contents |
Introduction: the avant-garde and modernism / Paul Wood -- Pt. 1. The Early Avant-Garde. 1. The avant-garde from the July Monarchy to the Second Empire / Paul Wood. 2. Material differences: the early avant-garde in France / Gen Doy. 3. Photography and modernity in nineteenth-century France / Steve Edwards. 4. Modernity in Germany: the many sides of Adolph Menzel / Jason Gaiger -- Pt. 2. The Avant-Garde in its Own Right. 5. The avant-garde and the Paris Commune / Paul Wood. 6. Caillebotte, masculinity, and the bourgeois gaze / Fionna Barber. 7. Exhibiting modernity: the 1889 Universal Exhibition and the Eiffel Tower / Tim Benton. 8. Exhibiting 'les Independants': Gauguin and the Cafe Volpini show / Gill Perry -- Pt. 3. 'The Point is to Change it'. 9. The avant-garde in the early twentieth century / Paul Wood. 10. The Futurists: transcontinental avant-gardism / Gail Day. 11. The revolutionary avant-gardes: Dada, Constructivism and Surrealism / Paul Wood |
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Conclusion: for and against the avant-garde / Paul Wood |
| Summary |
Throughout, it seeks to relate the discourse of artistic avant-gardism in all its forms to contemporary social and political histories |
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The Challenge of the Avant-Garde is the fourth of six books in the series Art and its Histories, which form the main texts of an Open University course. The course has been designed for students who are new to the discipline but will also appeal to those who have undertaken some study in this area. This volume traces the challenge posed to the academic canon by the emergent avant-garde of the early and mid-nineteenth century. It looks at significant shifts in the development of the concept, both in moves away from the sense of social leadership to a desire for artistic autonomy in the later nineteenth century and then a reverse movement to bridge the gap between art and life in the revolutionary avant-gardes of the early twentieth century. The book closes with an examination of the eventual incorporation of the avant-garde as a form of modern canon by the eve of World War II |
| Notes |
Series number from cover p.4 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [273]-276) and index |
| Subject |
Art, Modern.
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Avant-garde (Aesthetics)
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| Author |
Wood, Paul.
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Open University.
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| LC no. |
98037886 |
| ISBN |
0300077610 (cloth) |
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0300077629 (paper) |
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