Sport and the European Avant-Garde (1900-1945)

Sport and the European Avant-Garde (1900-1945)

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Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2022-02-07

Total Pages: 245

ISBN-13: 9004450033

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This collection of essays assesses the significance of sport for the European avant-garde in the first half of the 20th century from an international and interdisciplinary perspective. It shows the extent to which avant-garde art and culture was shaped by the dynamic encounter with modern sports.


Modern Art

Modern Art

Author: Gabriele Crepaldi

Publisher: Harper Design

Published: 2007-10-09

Total Pages: 408

ISBN-13:

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From Kandinsky and Picasso to Dal and Hopper, this oversized volume is a gorgeous showcase of the most influential and iconic modern art from the first half of the 20th century. Full color.


Sculpture 1900-1945

Sculpture 1900-1945

Author: Penelope Curtis

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13: 9780192842282

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This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the significant growth of sculpture as an artistic form in Europe and America from 1900-1945. Using a clearly-defined thematic structure it identifies key issues and developments throughout this important period in the history of art. Individualchapters cover: public sculpture, the monument, the object, image-making, the built environment, the figurative ideal, and different materials. These themes broadly reflect the changing cultural and political climate of a turbulent period which included two world wars, each preceded by widespreadrising nationalism. The practice of sculpture is considered within the wider artistic context of painting and architecture and the development of international art markets. Auguste Rodin, whose ground-breaking exhibition opened in Paris in 1900, serves as the book's point of departure, and as arecurrent point of reference.


Literature, Politics, and the English Avant-Garde

Literature, Politics, and the English Avant-Garde

Author: Paul Peppis

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2000-02-10

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 9780521662383

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Accounts of the 'historical avant-garde' and of 'high modernism' often celebrate the former for its revolutionary aesthetics or denigrate the latter for its 'proto-fascist' politics. In Literature, Politics and the English Avant-Garde, Paul Peppis shows how neither interpretation explains the writings of avant-gardists in early twentieth-century England. Peppis reads texts by writers such as Ford Madox Ford, Wyndham Lewis, Dora Marsden, and Ezra Pound alongside English political discourse between the death of Victoria and the end of the Great War. He traces the impact of nation and empire on the avant-garde, arguing that Vorticism, England's foremost avant-garde movement, used nationalism to advance literature and avant-garde literature to advance empire. Peppis's study demonstrates that these ambitions were enabled by a period conception of nationality as an essence and construct. By recovering these neglected aspects of avant-garde politics, Peppis's book opens important avenues for assessing modernist politics after the war.


A Companion to Europe, 1900 - 1945

A Companion to Europe, 1900 - 1945

Author: Gordon Martel

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2011-03-21

Total Pages: 934

ISBN-13: 1444391674

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This volume brings together a distinguished group of international scholars to discuss the major debates in the study of early twentieth-century Europe. Brings together contributions from a distinguished group of international scholars. Provides an overview of current thinking on the period. Traces the great political, social and economic upheavals of the time. Illuminates perennial themes, as well as new areas of enquiry. Takes a pan-European approach, highlighting similarities and differences across nations and regions.


Czech Modernism, 1900-1945

Czech Modernism, 1900-1945

Author: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

Publisher: Bulfinch Press

Published: 1989

Total Pages: 263

ISBN-13: 9780821217634

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Documentation of the Czech contribution to European modernism, bringing together essays by leading scholars, and exploring such art forms as painting, sculpture, writing, photography and film.


A Cultural History of the Avant-Garde in the Nordic Countries 1925-1950

A Cultural History of the Avant-Garde in the Nordic Countries 1925-1950

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Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2019-02-04

Total Pages: 992

ISBN-13: 900438829X

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A Cultural History of the Avant-Garde in the Nordic Countries 1925-1950 is the first publication to deal with the avant-garde in the Nordic countries in this period. The essays cover a wide range of avant-garde manifestations: literature, visual arts, theatre, architecture and design, film, radio, body culture and magazines. It is the first major historical work to consider the Nordic avant-garde in a transnational perspective that includes all the arts and to discuss the role of the avant-garde not only within the aesthetic field but in a broader cultural and political context: the pre-war and wartime responses to international developments, the new cultural institutions, sexual politics, the impact of refugees and the new start after the war.


The Rest Is Noise

The Rest Is Noise

Author: Alex Ross

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Published: 2007-10-16

Total Pages: 706

ISBN-13: 1429932880

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Winner of the 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism A New York Times Book Review Top Ten Book of the Year Time magazine Top Ten Nonfiction Book of 2007 Newsweek Favorite Books of 2007 A Washington Post Book World Best Book of 2007 In this sweeping and dramatic narrative, Alex Ross, music critic for The New Yorker, weaves together the histories of the twentieth century and its music, from Vienna before the First World War to Paris in the twenties; from Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Russia to downtown New York in the sixties and seventies up to the present. Taking readers into the labyrinth of modern style, Ross draws revelatory connections between the century's most influential composers and the wider culture. The Rest Is Noise is an astonishing history of the twentieth century as told through its music.


Women Artists and the Parisian Avant-garde

Women Artists and the Parisian Avant-garde

Author: Gillian Perry

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 238

ISBN-13: 9780719041655

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A re-presentation of women artists whose works were widely exhibited and regularly featured in the French art press and in modern art surveys from 1900 to the 1920s, but who largely disappeared from public view after World War II. The analysis of their work unravels the cultural, aesthetic, and economic reasons for their absence, particularly the issue of "feminine" and "masculine" categories in art. The artists featured include: Emilie Charmy, Jacqueline Marval, Maria Blanchard, Alice Halicka, Marevna, Alice Bailly, Marie Vassiliev, Suzanne Roger, and Mela Muter. The text includes fine color reproductions, bibliographic appendices, and an excerpt from Marevna's writings. Distributed by St. Martin's Press. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR