Screen LibraryModernism's other work : the art object's political life /
Modernism's Other Work challenges deeply held critical beliefs about the meaning - in particular the political meaning - of modernism's commitment to the work of art as an object detached from the world. Ranging over works of poetry, fiction, painting, sculpture, and film, it argues that m...
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Oxford University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | New York : |
| Publication Dates: |
2015. ©2012 |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: |
Modernism's Other Work challenges deeply held critical beliefs about the meaning - in particular the political meaning - of modernism's commitment to the work of art as an object detached from the world. Ranging over works of poetry, fiction, painting, sculpture, and film, it argues that modernism's core aesthetic problem - the artwork's status as an object, and a subject's relation to it - poses fundamental questions of agency, freedom, and politics. With fresh accounts of works by canonical figures such as William Carlos Williams and Marcel Duchamp, and transformative readings of less-stud |
| Carrier Form: | xi, 259 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-245) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780190255268 (paperback) : 0190255269 (paperback) |
| Index Number: | PS228 |
| CLC: | I712.065 |
| Call Number: | I712.065/S619 |
| Contents: | Introduction: Meaning's work -- Theorizing art and punctuation: Gertrude Stein's breathless poetry -- Satirizing frameless art: Wyndham Lewis's defense of representation -- Breaking glass to save the frame: William Carlos Williams and company -- Challenging kitsch equality: William Gaddis's and Elizabeth Bishop's "neo" rear-garde art -- Administering poetic breath for the people: Charles Olson and Amiri Baraka -- Coda: universal breath. |