A modern mosaic : art and modernism in the United States / edited by Townsend Ludington ; assistant editors, Thomas Fahy & Sarah P. Reuning.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ludington, Townsend, 1936-2021.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Modernism (Art)--United States.

Modernism (Art).

United States.

Arts, American--20th century.

Arts, American.

Popular culture--United States--History--20th century.

Popular culture.

History.

Physical Description:

439 pages, 24 pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2000]

Summary:

The modernist movement has shaped our era as has no other. This insightful collection of original essays explores the impact of modernism on American culture and the ways in which modernism remains a key to understanding American art and society.

An impressive cast of scholars examines works and their creators across the whole spectrum of artistic expression -- fiction and poetry, painting and sculpture, architecture, dance, photography, and film. In fresh and provocative essays they explore how the ideas of modernism helped shape such artistic expressions as the writings of the Harlem Renaissance, the paintings of Edward Hopper, New Deal public art projects, and George Antheil's Ballet Mecanique. Extensive use of color and black-and-white illustrations results in a book that is as appealing visually as it is stimulating intellectually.

Contents:

White City Elegy: Modern and Postmodern at the World's Fair / Robert Cantwell 12

Modernism and the Negro Renaissance / Jon Michael Spencer 47

Exotic Fantasies, Shameful Realities: Race in the Modern American Freak Show / Thomas Faby 67

Barren Ground, Mother Earth: Female Embodiments of Southern Modernism / Lucinda H. MacKethan 93

Modernism in Practice: Public Readings of the New Poetry / Joan Shelley Rubin 127

Dances of the Machine in Early Twentieth-Century America / John F. Kasson 153

George Antheil's Ballet Mecanique and Transatlantic Modernism / Carol J. Oja 175

Modern Dance and the American Century / Randy Martin 203

Art in the Great Depression / William E. Leuchtenburg 227

Between Civics and Politics: The Modernist Moment in Federal Public Art / Casey Nelson Blake 256

Illusion Complete within Itself: Roy DeCarava's Photography / Maren Stange 279

Portrait of the Photographer as a Young Man: John Vachon and the FSA Project / Miles Orvell 306

The Savage Eye: Edward Hopper and the Cinema / Lucy Fischer 334

Two Forms of Cinematic Modernism: Notes toward a Pragmatic Aesthetic / Ray Carney 357.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0807825786

0807848913

OCLC:

44969268