This volume is part of a four-volume series about art and its interpretation in the 19th and 20th centuries. The books provide an introduction to modern European and American art and criticism that should be valuable both to students and to the general reader. The book begins by considering responses by French artists to the World War I, showing how Purism, Dada, and early Surrealism are related to the ethos of post-war reconstruction. The authors then discuss the language of construction in places as dissimilar as France, Germany and the Soviet Union; the contrasting demands of the utility and decoration of objects and paintings; and the relationship of Surrealism to questions of sexuality and gender and to Freudian theory. The book concludes by addressing the widespread debate over realism in art: whether it represents an alternative to the elitism of the avant-garde or whether avant-garde art should play a role in the development of a modern realism.
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Early in 1926 Alexandre Cabanel's The Birth of Venus of 1863 was consigned to the basement of the Musee du Luxembourg, together with 180 other nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Academic paintings considered 'too space-consuming for their pictorial value' (quoted in C. Green, Cubism and its Enemies, p.131). Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
heroic realism, naturalistic painting, present whereabouts unknown, realism debate, mass ornament, artistic construction, proletarian culture, realist art, modern realism Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Socialist Realism, Man Ray, Soviet Union, First World War, Pablo Picasso, Max Ernst, Arno Press Reprint, Otto Dix, George Grosz, Aleksandr Rodchenko, Communist Party, Lyubov Popova, Russian Constructivism, Van Doesburg, Centre Georges Pompidou, Francis Picabia, Frida Kahlo, Third International, Russian Art of the Avant-Garde, Salvador Dali, Costakis Collection, John Heartfield, State Tretyakov Gallery, Decorative Figure New!
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Early in 1926 Alexandre Cabanel's The Birth of Venus of 1863 was consigned to the basement of the Musee du Luxembourg, together with 180 other nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Academic paintings considered 'too space-consuming for their pictorial value' (quoted in C. Green, Cubism and its Enemies, p.131). Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
heroic realism, naturalistic painting, present whereabouts unknown, realism debate, mass ornament, artistic construction, proletarian culture, realist art, modern realism Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Socialist Realism, Man Ray, Soviet Union, First World War, Pablo Picasso, Max Ernst, Arno Press Reprint, Otto Dix, George Grosz, Aleksandr Rodchenko, Communist Party, Lyubov Popova, Russian Constructivism, Van Doesburg, Centre Georges Pompidou, Francis Picabia, Frida Kahlo, Third International, Russian Art of the Avant-Garde, Salvador Dali, Costakis Collection, John Heartfield, State Tretyakov Gallery, Decorative Figure New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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