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Antimodernism and artistic experience : policing the boundaries of modernity / edited by Lynda Jessup.
De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 Available online
View online- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Heritage
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Primitivism in art.
- Modernism (Art).
- Art, Modern--19th century.
- Art, Modern.
- Art, Modern--20th century.
- Primitivism in art--Canada.
- Modernism (Art)--Canada.
- Art, Canadian--20th century.
- Art, Canadian.
- Canada.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (306 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Toronto, [Ontario] ; Buffalo, [New York] ; London, [England] : University of Toronto Press, 2001.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Scholars in art history, anthropology, history, and feminist media studies explore Western antimodernism of the turn of the 20th century as an artistic response to a perceived loss of 'authentic' experience.
- Contents:
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Antimodernism and artistic experience: an introduction
- Introduction: around and about modernity: some comments on themes of primitivism and modernism
- Performing the native woman: primitivism and mimicry in early twentieth-century visual culture
- The colonial lens: Gauguin, primitivism, and photography in the fin de siecle
- Emily Carr and the traffic in native images
- Introduction: staging antimodernism in the age of high capitalist nationalism
- Modernists and folk on the lower St. Lawrence: the problem of folk art
- Handicrafts and the logic of 'commercial antimodernism': the Nova Scotia case
- Bushwhackers in the gallery: antimodernism and the Group of Seven
- Introduction: modernity, nostalgia, and the standardization of time
- Artisans and art nouveau in fin-de-siecle Belgium: primitivism and nostalgia
- Van Gogh in the south: antimodernism and exoticism in the Arlesian paintings
- Plays without people: shadows and puppets of modernity in fin-de-siecle Paris
- Primitivism in Sweden: dormant desire or fictional identity?
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-4426-5566-6
- 1-4426-2310-1
- OCLC:
- 903441049
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