Making it modern : essays on the art of the now / Linda Nochlin ; edited by Aruna D'Souza.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nochlin, Linda, author.

Contributor:

D'Souza, Aruna, editor.

Class of 1891 Department of Arts Fund.

Standardized Title:

Essays. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art, Modern--20th century.

Art, Modern.

Genre:

Essays.

Art criticism.

Physical Description:

448 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Thames & Hudson Ltd ; New York, NY : Thames & Hudson Inc., 2022.

Summary:

This illustrated, edited collection of essays brings together for the first time some of the pioneering art historian Linda Nochlin's most important writings on modernism and modernity from across her six-decade career. Before the publication of her seminal tract on feminism in art, 'Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?', Nochlin had already firmly established herself as a major practitioner of a politically sophisticated and class-conscious social art history, with her writings on modernism being transformative to the discipline. Nochlin embraced Charles Baudelaire's conviction that modernity meant to be of one's time - and that the role of an art historian was to understand the art of the past not only in its own historical context, but according to the urgencies of the contemporary world. From academic debates about the nude in the 18th century to the work of Robert Gober in the 21st, whatever she turned her analytic eye to was very much conceived as the art of the now - the art we need to look at to navigate the complexities and contradictions of the present.

Contents:

Revolutions in Art and History

1 1848: The Revolution in Art History p. 18

2 Meyer Schapiro's Modernism p. 29

3 Courbet, David, and the Imaginative Afterlife of the French Revolution p. 36

Bodies of Modernity

4 Pissarro, Cézanne, and the Eternal Feminine p. 47

5 Renoir's Men: Constructing the Myth of the Natural p. 60

6 Body Politics: Seurat's Poseuses p. 67

7 Camille Corot: The Nude without Qualities p. 81

Abstracting the Body

8 Bonnard's Bathers p. 90

9 The World According to Gober p. 103

10 "Sex is so Abstract": The Nudes of Andy Warhol p. 115

Othering Art History

11 Sex and the "Sepoy Mutiny": The Intersection of Race and Gender in the Colonial Imaginary p. 125

12 Learning from Black Male p. 134

13 The Imaginary Orient p. 140

Abstraction and Realism

14 Kelly: Making Abstraction Anew p. 160

15 The Realist Criminal and the Abstract Law p. 175

16 The New Realists p. 199

17 Picasso's Color: Schemes and Gambits p. 207

Museums and Vision

18 Museums and Radicals: A History of Emergencies p. 239

19 The Museum as Bildungsroman: My Life in Art, Trash, and Fashion p. 261

20 Matisse and its Other p. 273

21 The Naked and the Dread: Reviewing the Modern Nude p. 286

Genre and Form

22 Impressionist Portraits and the Construction of Modern Identity p. 296

23 Francis Bacon and the Fear of Narrative p. 325

24 Academic Art and the Death of Narrative p. 332

25 Camille Pissarro: The Unassuming Eye p. 346

26 Death and Gender in Manet's Still Lifes p. 357

Art as/and Work

27 The Paterson Strike Pageant of 1913 p. 368

28 Van Gogh, Renouard, and the Weavers' Crisis in Lyons p. 377

20 Seurat's Grande Jatte: An Anti-Utopian Allegory p. 396

30 The Cribleuses de He: Courbet, Millet, Breton, Kollwitz, and the Image of the Working Woman p. 415.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 438-440) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1891 Department of Arts Fund.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9780500293706

0500293708

OCLC:

1295402960