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Antimodernism and artistic experience : policing the boundaries of modernity / edited by Lynda Jessup.

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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Jessup, Lynda, 1956- editor.
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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