Blackwell Companions to Art History: A Companion to Modern Art
Blackwell Companions to Art History: A Companion to Modern Art
Editor: Meecham, Pam
Publication Year: 2018
Publisher: Wiley
Price: Core Collection Only

ISBN: 978-1-11-863984-9
Category: Arts & Leisure - Art & Art History
Image Count:
62
Book Status: Available
Table of Contents
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.
This book is found in the following Credo Collections:
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”