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Modern : genius, madness, and one tumultuous decade that changed art forever / Philip Hook.
LIBRA - Athenaeum of Philadelphia Circulating N6758 .H67 2022
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hook, Philip, author.
- Standardized Title:
- Art of the extreme
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Modernism (Art)--Europe.
- Modernism (Art).
- Art, European--20th century.
- Art, European.
- Europe.
- Physical Description:
- 383 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York, : The Experiment, 2022.
- Summary:
- "An exploration of the revolutionary birth of Modern art in the tumultuous decade brought to a shattering close by WWI"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Introduction: A tumultuous decade
- Part I: Releasing control
- Basic instinct
- The guiding lights: Van Gogh, Gauguin, Cézanne
- Color and Fauvism
- Expressionism and angst
- Primitivism: "The Wisdom of Savages"
- Sex and sublimation: Exciting the whole machine
- Anarchism
- Violence, war, and guns
- Journeys inward: The symbolist strand
- Part II: Paris, capital of the modern art world
- The artistic Mecca
- Paris and Germany
- Paris and London
- Paris and Russia
- Paris and the rest of Europe
- Part III: Losing control
- Trouble with women
- Descent into madness: The case of Edvard Munch
- Altered states: Drugs and alcohol
- Alienation from the public
- Suicide, death, morbidity
- Studio gruffness and the rewriting of history
- Part IV: Beyond instinct
- Breaking boundaries
- Supermen
- Abstraction
- The Blaue Reiter
- Matisse: Beyond Fauvism
- Picasso and Cubism
- Futurism: Beautiful ideas that kill
- Pioneers of Modernism: Dealers and collectors of new art
- Part V: Keeping control
- Call the police: Academicism and conservative taste
- Wriggle and chiffon: Fashionable portraitists
- Railroads and Rembrandts: Dealers and collectors of old art
- Heritage, museums, and national collections
- Finale: August 1914- Art Suspended.
- Notes:
- "Originally published in Great Britain as Art of the Extreme by Profile Books Ltd in 2021" -- Title page verso.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 352-359) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Garrison fund bookplate.
- Other Edition:
- Reproduction of
- Reproduction of: 9781788161855 Hook, Philip. London : Profile Books, 2021
- Other Format:
- Online version:
- Hook, Philip. Modern
- Online version: Hook, Philip. Modern
- ISBN:
- 9781615198672
- 1615198679
- OCLC:
- 1311275585
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