Artistic Modernism
03 Oct 1994 12:00
Especially before the first World War. Especially Futurism. And technology. Attitudes towards the past. And apocalyptic change. And reason. And emotion. And violence. Links to: counter-cultures; contemporary scientific ideas; ideas of decadence, and revolutionary renewal; Romanticism.
Modernist architecture interests me enough to get its own entry.
- Recommended:
- Jacques Barzun
- Classic, Romantic and Modern
- The Energies of Art
- Of Human Freedom
- William R. Everdell, The First Moderns [Review: Only Dissect!]
- Siegfried Giedion, Space, Time and Architecture
- Igor Golomshtok, Totalitarian Art
- O. B. Hardison, Jr., Disappearing through the Skylight [much of which I profoundly disagree with]
- Robert Hughes, The Shock of the New
- Edmund Wilson, Axel's Castle
- Not completely recommended:
- Richard Jean So and Hoyt Long, "Network Analysis and the Sociology of Modernism", boundary 2 40 (2013): 147--182 [This is a directed bipartite graph: poets send poems to journals. Ignoring the direction of the edges and then treating poets who send poems to multiple journals as "brokers" seems odd, and may explain some of the strangeness of the results. What one would really want to complement this with would be another directed relation, pointing from journals to the poets who read them. Still, baby steps. (And it's flattering to have a sentence of Gndedenko and Kolmogorov's attributed to me.)]
- To read:
- Walter L. Adamson, Embattled Avant-Gardes: Modernism's Resistance to Commodity Culture in Europe
- James Sloan Allen, The Romance of Commerce and Culture: Capitalism, Modernism, and the Chicago-Aspen Crusade for Cultural Reform
- Tim Armstrong, Modernism, Technology, and the Body: A Cultural Study
- Elazar Barkan and Ronald Bush (eds.), Prehistories of the Future: The Primitivist Project and the Culture of Modernism
- Daniel Belgrad, The Culture of Spontaneity: Improvisation and the Arts in Postwar America
- Jessica Berman, Modernist Fiction, Cosmopolitanism, and the Politics of Community
- Butler, Early Modernism
- Deborah R. Coen, Vienna in the Age of Uncertainty: Science, Liberalism, and Private Life
- Joseph Cornell [very strange American artist; biography by Deborah Solomon, Utopia Parkway]
- Hal Foster, Prosthetic Gods
- Laura Catherine Frost, Sex Drives: Fantasies of Fascism in Literary Modernism
- Cathy Gere, Knossos and the Prophets of Modernism
- Liam Gillick,
- Loren Glass, Counterculture Colophon: Grove Press, the Evergreen Review, and the Incorporation of the Avant-Garde
- John Gray Hutton, Neo-Impressionism and the Search for Solid Ground: Art, Science, and Anarchism in Fin-de-siecle France
- Karen Jacobs, The Eye's Mind: Literary Modernism and Visual Culture
- Kern, Culture of Time and Space, 1880-1918
- Michael Levenson, A Genealogy of Modernism: A Study of English Literary Doctrine, 1908--1922
- J. M. Mancini, Pre-Modernism: Art-World Change and American Culture from the Civil War to the Armory Show [Or: On or about December 1910, a generation of talented young artists hit upon a mode of self-presentation which meshed almost perfectly with trends which had been developing in the art world for several decades]
- Victor Margolin, The Struggle for Utopia: Rodchenko, Lissitzky, Moholy-Nagy, 1917--1946
- Jennifer Jane Marshall, Machine Art, 1934
- Guido Mazzoni, On Modern Poetry
- Christine Poggi, In Defiance of Painting: Cubism, Futurism and the Invention of Collage
- Precisionism in America
- Martin Puchner, Poetry of the Revolution: Marx, Manifestos, and the Avant-Gardes
- George Rickey, Constructivism: Origins and Evolution
- Derek Sayer, Prague, Capital of the Twentieth Century: A Surrealist History
- Carl E. Schorske, Thinking with History: Explorations in the Passage to Modernism
- Sophie Seita, Provisional Avant-Gardes: Little Magazine Communities from Dada to Digital
- Vincent Sherry, The Great War and the Language of Modernism
- Richard Candida Smith, Utopia and Dissent: Art, Poetry and Politics in California
- Michael Tratner, Modernism and Mass Politics: Joyce, Woolf, Eliot, Yeats [On the strength of this]
- Timothy Wientzen, Automatic: Literary Modernism and the Politics of Reflex
- Theodore Ziolkowski, The View from the Tower: Origins of an Antimodernist Image
