Modernism and still life : artists, writers, dancers / Claudia Tobin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tobin, Claudia, author.

Series:

Edinburgh critical studies in Modernist culture.

Edinburgh critical studies in Modernist culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Modernism (Art).

Modernism (Literature).

Movement in literature.

Still-life in art.

Still-life in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 240 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2020.

Summary:

This book takes an original approach to still life in modern literature and the visual arts by examining the potential for movement and transformation in the idea of stillness and the ordinary.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

FIGURES AND PLATES

ABBREVIATIONS

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

SERIES EDITORS’ PREFACE

INTRODUCTION: ‘NOTHING IS REALLY STATICALLY AT REST’: CÉZANNE AND MODERN STILL LIFE

1 ‘QUIVERING YET STILL’: VIRGINIA WOOLF, ROGER FRY AND THE AESTHETICS OF ATTENTION

2 STILL LIFE IN MOTION

3 ‘PAST THE GAP WHERE WE CANNOT SEE’: STILL LIFE AND THE ‘NUMINOUS’ IN BRITISH PAINTING OF THE 1920s–1930s

4 ‘INACTIVE CONTEMPLATION’: WALLACE STEVENS AND CHARLES MAURON

CONCLUSION: ‘ON THE VERY BRINK OF UTTERANCE’: ALDOUS HUXLEY, MARK GERTLER AND TRANSFIGURED THINGS

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 13 Oct 2020).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-4744-8121-3

1-4744-5515-8

OCLC:

1306539433