A Companion to Modern Art presents a series of original essays by international and interdisciplinary authors who offer a comprehensive overview of the origins and evolution of artistic works, movements, approaches, influences, and legacies of Modern Art.

Table of Contents

• Acknowledgments
• Notes on Contributors
• Introduction
• Part I: Ancient & Modern
• Chapter 1: Revitalizing Romanticism; or, Reflections on the Nietzschean Aesthetic and the Modern Imagination
• Chapter 2: A Cartography of Desires and Taboos: The Modern Primitive and the Antipodes
• Chapter 3: Primitive/Modern/Contemporary
• Chapter 4: Did Modernism Redefine Classicism? The Ancient Modernity of Classical Greek Art
• Chapter 5: Robert Goldwater and the Search for the Primitive: The Asmat Project at the Museum of Primitive Art
• Chapter 6: Surrealist Ireland: the Archaic, the Modern and the Marvelous
• Part II: Displaying the Modern
• Chapter 7: Picturing the Installation Shot
• Chapter 8: Contemporary Displays of Modern Art
• Chapter 9: Camera-Eye: Photography and Modernism
• Chapter 10: Photographic Installation Strategies En-bloc and In-the-round
• Chapter 11: Documenta 6: Memories of Another Modernism
• Part III: Re-assessments: Modernism and Globalization
• Chapter 12: Bijiasuo and Truth: Modernism Reassessed in an Era of Globalization
• Chapter 13: Extensive Modernity: On the Refunctioning of Artists as Producers
• Chapter 14: Architecture's Modernisms
• Chapter 15: The Wide Margins of the Century: Rural Modernism, Pastoral Peasants, and Economic Migrations
• Chapter 16: Destabilizing Essentialism through Localizing Modernism
• Part IV: Locating Modernism: Multiple Modernisms and Nation Building
• Chapter 17: The Many Modernisms of Australian Art
• Chapter 18: Greek-Cypriot Locality: (Re) Defining our Understanding of European Modernity
• Chapter 19: A Northern Avant-garde: Spaces and Cultural Transfer
• Chapter 20: Modernisms, Genealogy, and Utopias in Finland
• Chapter 21: The Engaged Artist: Considerations of Relevance
• Chapter 22: Visualizing Figures of Caribbean Slavery through Modernism
• Part V: The Modern Artist, the Modern Child, and a Modern Art Education
• Chapter 23: A Modern Art Education
• Chapter 24: Misrecognition: Child's Play, Modern Art, and Vygotskian Psychology
• Chapter 25: MoMA and the Modern Child: The Critical Role of Education Programming in MoMA's Modernism
• Chapter 26: Paul Cézanne's Young Girl at the Piano – Overture to “Tannhäuser” or “Le Haschisch des femmes”