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Â€™Pataphysics Unrolled

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 A collection of critical and creative essays exploring pataphysics, a late nineteenth-century French absurdist precursor to Dadaism, surrealism, and the Theater of the Absurd. Reveals how pataphysics has been a platform and medium for persistent intellectual, poetic, conceptual, and artistic experimentation for over a century.
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Machine Modernism, Masculinity, And The Trauma Of War - The Art Of Fernand Leger

by Maureen G. (James Madison University) Shanahan

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 Investigates the artwork of one of machine modernismâ€™s leading figures, Fernand LÃ©ger, for the aestheticâ€™s origins in World War I, its unstable production of masculinity, and its collapse in the context of surrealism, economic crises, and the revival of war memories.
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Cold War In The White Cube - U.S. Exhibitions Of Latin American Art, 1959â€“1968

by Delia (Drexel University) Solomons

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 Surveys how U.S. museums exhibited Latin American art in the 1960s, focusing on rhetoric, aesthetics, and Cold War politics.
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Fragment, Image, And Absence In 1960s Japan

by Ignacio A. (University Of British Columbia) Adriasola Munoz

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 Examines the transformation of "the object" and the aesthetics of disaffection in the experimental art and photography of 1960s Japan.
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Simon Hantai And The Reserves Of Painting

by Molly (Assistant Professor, Johns Hopkins University) Warnock

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 Explores the career of Hungarian-born French painter Simon HantaÃ¯ (1922â€"2008) from his earliest paintings and writings in France in the 1950s through his final abstractions of the 2000s.
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Decorative Arts Of The Tunisian Ecole - Fabrications Of Modernism, Gender, And Power

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 Fabrications of Modernism Gender and Power.
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Natureâ€™S Experiments And The Search For Symbolist Form

by Allison (Associate Professor, Queenâ€™S University) Morehead

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 Examines the influence of experimental science, concerned with the workings of the body, the mind, and their various pathologies, on the works of late nineteenth-century artists Maurice Denis, Ã‰douard Vuillard, August Strindberg, and Edvard Munch.
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Soviet Salvage - Imperial Debris, Revolutionary Reuse, And Russian Constructivism

by Russell Frank

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 A humorous account of life in State College, Pennsylvania. Includes reflections on undergraduate life, intercollegiate sports, teaching at Penn State, and the pleasures and frustrations of living in a college town.
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Color In The Age Of Impressionism - Commerce, Technology, And Art - Commerce, Technology, And Art

by Laura Anne (Smith College) Kalba

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 Investigates the scandalous 1731 trial in which a young woman in the south of France accused her Jesuit confessor of seduction, heresy, abortion, and bewitchment. Examines this trial in the context of growing public disenchantment with the church and the monarchy.
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Ireland And The Problem Of Information - Irish Writing, Radio, Late Modernist Communication

by Damien (Suny Buffalo) Keane

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 A series of studies examining literary modernism in Ireland. Explores how cultural work assumed new meaning amid the strategic imperatives of the mid-twentieth century, and demonstrates how the late modernist field became todayâ€™s information age.
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Mediating Modernity - German Literature And The Â€Œnewâ€ Media, 1895â€“1930

by Stefanie (Texas A And M University) Harris

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 An interdisciplinary examination of the responses of literary authors in Germany, from 1895-1930, to the emerging media of image and sound recording.
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Documenting Spain - Artists, Exhibition Culture, And The Modern Nation, 1929â€“1939

by Jordana (New York University ) Mendelson

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Facing Images - Medieval Japanese Art And The Problem Of Modernity

by Kristopher W. (University Of California, Los Angeles) Kersey

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 Traces the turbulent discourse about the emergence of Japanese art history as a modern field, and presents a new paradigm for discussing the place of non-Western and nonmodern art in global modernity.
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Qayrawan - The Amuletic City

by William (University Of Exeter) Gallois

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 Explores the cultural and religious significance of a series artworks painted onto the walls of the Tunisian city of Qayrawa n by women artists in the late nineteenth century.
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Leonce Rosenbergâ€™S Cubism - The Galerie Lâ€™Effort Moderne In Interwar Paris

by Giovanni (Scuola Normale Superiore) Casini

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 Explores cubism and interwar modernism, focusing on the career of art dealer Leonce Rosenberg and his Parisian gallery, L'Effort Moderne.
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Â€™Pataphysics Unrolled

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 A collection of critical and creative essays exploring pataphysics, a late nineteenth-century French absurdist precursor to Dadaism, surrealism, and the Theater of the Absurd. Reveals how pataphysics has been a platform and medium for persistent intellectual, poetic, conceptual, and artistic experimentation for over a century.
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Radical Dreams - Surrealism, Counterculture, Resistance

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 A collection of essays examining surrealism's cultural adaptations and genealogical descendants from the 1960s through the late 1980s. Explores surrealism's interactions with radical politics, protest movements, the sexual revolution, psychedelic subcultures, and other engaged and subcultural trends around the globe.
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Radical Dreams - Surrealism, Counterculture, Resistance

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 A collection of essays examining surrealism's cultural adaptations and genealogical descendants from the 1960s through the late 1980s. Explores surrealism's interactions with radical politics, protest movements, the sexual revolution, psychedelic subcultures, and other engaged and subcultural trends around the globe.
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London Art Worlds - Mobile, Contingent, And Ephemeral Networks, 1960â€“1980

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 Examines the rich networks of international artists and art practices that emerged in and around London during the 1960s and 1970s. Discusses diverse practices, movements, and spaces, from painting, sculpture, and film to performance, conceptual, and land art.
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Sculptors Against The State - Anarchism And The Anglo-European Avant-Garde

by Mark (Duke University) Antliff

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 Considers the relation of anarchist ideology to avant-garde sculpture through an examination of iconic artists and writers whose work transformed European modernism: Jacob Epstein, Oscar Wilde, Umberto Boccioni, F. T. Marinetti, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, and Ezra Pound.
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Misfit Modernism - Queer Forms Of Double Exile In The Twentieth-Century Novel

by Octavio R. (Wellesley College) Gonzalez

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 Revisits the theme of alienation in modernist literature, finding an alternative aesthetic centered on the experience of double exile. Explores examples drawn from the cultural groupings of the New Negro movement, Parisian expatriates in the 1920s, and the queer expatriate scene in Los Angeles before Stonewall.
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Art And Form - From Roger Fry To Global Modernism

by Sam (Lecturer In Art History, University Of St. Andrews) Rose

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 Explores the rise of formalism in the visual arts. Employs an expanded sense of form to rethink a range of areas, including the history of writing about art, constructions of high and low culture, and the idea of global modernism.
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Shattered Objects - Djuna Barnesâ€™S Modernism

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 A collection of essays on the work of Djuna Barnes, including her early journalism, poetry, prose, visual art, and drama.
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Surveying The Avant-Garde - Questions On Modernism, Art, And The Americas In Transatlantic Magazines

by Lori (Visiting Assistant Professor, New York University) Cole

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 Examines art and literature of the Americas through the lens of the questionnaire, a genre as central as the manifesto to the history of the avant-garde. Demonstrates how modernism and the avant-garde were debated at the very moment of their development and consolidation.
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