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The intellectual migration to the United States of European writers, intellectuals, and artists in the 1930s and 1940s has often been narrowly seen as a clash between a rarefied European modernist sensibility and a debased American mass culture. In Transatlantic Aliens, Will Norman reorients our understanding of midcentury American culture by thinking dialectically about the interfusion of aesthetic and intellectual practices across both the cultural hierarchy and the Atlantic. The transatlantic exchanges of midcentury emerge in the book as a crisis point for modernism at which claims for the autonomy of high culture became increasingly untenable, the geographical center of cultural authority was displaced, and the governing principles of the American cultural field went through a phase of dramatic instability.Norman relays this critical narrative through a series of interlinked case studies of key figures, including C. L. R. James, Theodor Adorno, George Grosz, Raymond Chandler, Simone de Beauvoir, Vladimir Nabokov, and Saul Steinberg. He discovers the strange afterlives of European modernism in disorientating and uncanny juxtapositions: the aesthetics of French symbolism flicker among the neon signs of a small town in the dead of night, and echoes of Mondrian's grids are observed in the form of a boardroom sales chart. At the heart of Transatlantic Aliens is a conception of alienation that encompasses both its political and aesthetic valences. What unites the exilic figures it addresses is the desire to transform the practical experience of alienation into a positive resource for criticizing and coping with a reconfigured postwar landscape.Addressed to scholars and readers of American and comparative literatures as well as of cultural history and visual culture, the book combines assessments of individual artworks, novels, and other texts with more distant readings spanning time and space. A gallery of color plates beautifully illuminates the book's analysis. Examining hardboiled fiction through Flaubert, New Yorker cartoons through modernist painting, and Bette Davis through Hegel and Marx, Transatlantic Aliens challenges and changes the way we understand modernism's place in midcentury American culture.

Europeans --- Modernism (Art) --- Modernism (Literature) --- Modernism (Aesthetics) --- History --- United States --- Intellectual life --- Civilization --- Crepuscolarismo --- Art, Modernist --- Modern art --- Modernism in art --- Modernist art --- Civilization. --- Europeans. --- HISTORY --- Intellectual life. --- Modernism (Aesthetics). --- Modernism (Art). --- Modernism (Literature). --- State & Local --- General --- 1900-1999. --- United States. --- Aesthetics --- Literary movements --- Postmodernism (Literature) --- Aesthetic movement (Art) --- Art, Modern --- Ethnology

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What if modernism had been characterised by evolving, interconnected and multi-sensory images rather than by the monolithic objects often described by its artists and theorists? In this groundbreaking book, Charissa Terranova unearths a forgotten narrative of modernism, which charts the influence that biology, General Systems Theory and cybernetics had on art in the twentieth century. From kinetic and interactive art to early computer art and installations spanning an entire city, she shows that the digital image was a rich and expansive artistic medium of modernism. This book links the emergence of the digital image to the dispersion of biocentric aesthetic philosophies developed by Bauhaus pedagogue Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, from 1920s Berlin to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the 1970s. It uncovers seminal but overlooked references to biology, the organism, feedback loops, emotions and the Gestalt, along with an intricate genealogy of related thinkers across disciplines. Terranova reinterprets major art movements such as the Bauhaus, Op Art and Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T.), by referencing contemporary insights from architects, embryologists, electrical engineers and computer scientists, among others. This book reveals the complex connections between visual culture, science and technology that comprise the deep history of twentieth-century art.

Digital images. --- Digitized images --- Images, Digital --- Pictures --- Art and biology. --- Modern art --- Modernism (Art) --- Moholy-Nagy, László, --- Art, Modernist --- Modernism in art --- Modernist art --- Aesthetic movement (Art) --- Art, Modern --- Biology and art --- Biology --- Moholy-Nagy, Ladislaus, --- Nagy, László Moholy-, --- Nagy, Ladislaus Moholy-, --- Affichistes (Group of artists) --- Fluxus (Group of artists) --- Schule der Neuen Prächtigkeit (Group of artists) --- Zero (Group of artists)

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Le spécialiste des arts décoratifs fait une histoire de la sculpture du mouvement : les avant-garde de l'entre-deux guerres et les principaux acteurs, la sculpture dans les arts commerciaux et décoratifs et enfin la sculpture architecturale et monumentale à travers le monde. ©Electre 2016

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Art Periodical Culture in Late Imperial Russia (1898-1917). Print Modernism in Transition offers a detailed exploration of the major Modernist art periodicals in late imperial Russia, the World of Art ( Mir Iskusstva , 1899-1904), The Golden Fleece ( Zolotoe runo , 1906-1909) and Apollo ( Apollon , 1909-1917). By exploring the role of art reproduction in the nineteenth century and the emergence of these innovative art journals in the turn of the century, Hanna Chuchvaha proves that these Modernist periodicals advanced the Russian graphic arts and reinforced the development of reproduction technologies and the art of printing. Offering a detailed examination of the “inaugural” issues, which included editorial positions expressed in words and images, Hanna Chuchvaha analyses the periodicals’ ideologies and explores journals as art objects appearing in their unique socio-historical context in imperial Russia.

Modernist --- Mir Iskusstva --- Book history --- art [fine art] --- periodicals --- Art --- anno 1800-1999 --- Saint Petersburg --- Illustrated periodicals --- Modernism (Art) --- Magazines (Publications) --- Modernisme (Art) --- History --- Periodicals --- Histoire --- Périodiques --- Mir iskusstva. --- Zolotoe runo. --- Apollon (Saint Petersburg, Russia) --- Périodiques --- Periodicals. --- Art, Modernist --- Modern art --- Modernism in art --- Modernist art --- Aesthetic movement (Art) --- Art, Modern --- Journalism, Pictorial --- Photojournalism --- Аполлон (Saint Petersburg, Russia) --- Художественно-литературный журнал 'Аполлон' --- Khudozhestvenno-literaturnyĭ zhurnal 'Apollon' --- Аполлон (Petrograd, R.S.F.S.R.) --- Apollon (Petrograd, R.S.F.S.R.) --- Apollo (Saint Petersburg, Russia) --- Золотое руно --- Golden fleece --- Toison d'or (Moscow, Russia) --- Мир искусства --- World of art (Saint Petersburg, Russia) --- Monde artiste --- art [discipline]

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This 'Cambridge History of Modernism' is the first comprehensive history of modernism in the distinguished Cambridge Histories series. It identifies a distinctive temperament of 'modernism' within the 'modern' period, establishing the circumstances of modernized life as the ground and warrant for an art that becomes 'modernist' by virtue of its demonstrably self-conscious involvement in this modern condition. Following this sensibility from the end of the nineteenth century to the middle of the twentieth, tracking its manifestations across pan-European and transatlantic locations, the forty-three chapters offer a remarkable combination of breadth and focus. Prominent scholars of modernism provide analytical narratives of its literature, music, visual arts, architecture, philosophy, and science, offering circumstantial accounts of its diverse personnel in their many settings. These historically informed readings offer definitive accounts of the major work of twentieth-century cultural history and provide a new cornerstone for the study of modernism in the current century.

Modernism (Literature) --- Literature, Modern --- Modernism (Aesthetics) --- Modernism (Art) --- Modernism (Music) --- Modern movement (Architecture) --- Arts and society --- Arts and society. --- Literature, Modern. --- History and criticism. --- History --- 1800-1999 --- Modernism (Literature). --- Modernism (Aesthetics). --- Modernism (Art). --- Modernism (Music). --- Modern movement (Architecture). --- 1800-1999. --- Art --- Literature --- anno 1900-1999 --- Art, Modernist --- Modern art --- Modernism in art --- Modernist art --- Aesthetic movement (Art) --- Art, Modern --- Modernism (Architecture) --- Modernist architecture --- Architecture, Modern --- International style (Architecture) --- Modernism in music --- Modernist music --- Musical modernism --- Style, Musical --- Aesthetics --- Crepuscolarismo --- Literary movements --- History and criticism