Please note: In order to keep Hive up to date and provide users with the best features, we are no longer able to fully support Internet Explorer. The site is still available to you, however some sections of the site may appear broken. We would encourage you to move to a more modern browser like Firefox, Edge or Chrome in order to experience the site fully.

Supporting your high street Find out how »
Of Modernism, Hardback Book

Of Modernism Hardback

Edited by Grace Brockington, C.F.B. Miller

Hardback

Only a few left - usually despatched within 24 hours

Description

Of Modernism presents original research by ten contemporary scholars of modern art.

By turns provocative, insightful and informative, these essays - written in honour of the eminent British art historian Christopher Green - rethink some of the crucial artworks, problems and practitioners of European high modernism, from Les Demoiselles d'Avignon to Guernica, avant-gardism to internationalism, Joan Miro to Ludwig Mies Van der Rohe. Professor Christopher Green has made an outstanding contribution to the historiography of European modernism.

As a teacher at the Courtauld Institute, his wide-ranging scholarship and generosity of mind have inspired several generations of students, many of whom have gone on to lead distinguished careers in the worlds of art and academia.

Of Modernism is a collection written in his honour. Questions about modernism shape the ten essays presented here, explicitly or otherwise, and they come in as many different shapes.

However, the subject-matter is predominantly European (which still includes Britain at the time of writing!); the method is historical, true to Chris's conviction that 'the work of an artist is, in its largest sense, inseparable from history thought of in its largest sense'; and finally, the canon is open, situating Picasso - a theme in the collection - alongside artists far more obscure, and in the context of a visual culture which is strikingly eclectic and often ephemeral. The ten contributors to this collection - Fae Brauer, Grace Brockington, Penelope Curtis, Linda Goddard, Nancy Ireson, William Jeffett, Silvia Loreti, C.F.B.

Miller, Gavin Parkinson and Sarah Victoria Turner - all studied with Chris as postgraduates at the Courtauld, and several have also collaborated with him as curators.

They have all moved on to distinguished careers worldwide, ranging from critics and historians to eminent professors and museum professionals.

Information

Save 23%

£40.00

£30.49

Only a few left - usually despatched within 24 hours
Add to Basket
Sign in to add to wishlist
 
Free Home Delivery

on all orders

 
Pick up orders

from local bookshops

Information