| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 172 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: Anglomodern: the painting of modern life -- Women at the Whitney, 1910-30: feminism, sociology, aesthetics -- Questions of discovery: the art of Kathleen McEnergy -- Gender and the haunting or cities: or, the retirement of the Flâneur -- The feminine in modern art: Benjamin, Simmel, and the gender of modernity -- The failure of a hard sponge: class, Ethnicity, and the art of Mark Gertler -- The "Jewish mark" in English painting: cultural identity and modern art -- Afterword: Modernism, realism, revisionism. |
| Summary |
In a masterly book on the sociology of modernism, Janet Wolff explores work that was primarily realist and figurative and investigates the processes by which art fell by the wayside in the post-war period. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Modernism (Art) -- United States.
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Modernism (Art) |
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United States. |
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Modernism (Art) -- Great Britain.
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Great Britain. |
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Painting, American -- 20th century.
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Painting, American. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
Painting, British -- 20th century.
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Painting, British. |
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Gender identity in art.
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Gender identity in art. |
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Ethnicity in art.
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Ethnicity in art. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Wolff, Janet. AngloModern. Ithaca [N.Y.] : Cornell University Press, 2003 080143923X (DLC) 2002152331 (OCoLC)50859019 |
| ISBN |
9781501717468 (electronic book) |
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1501717464 (electronic book) |
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080143923X |
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9780801439230 |
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0801487420 |
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9780801487422 |
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