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Record Nr.

UNINA9910463581303321

Titolo

Across the great divide : modernism's intermedialities, from futurism to fluxus / / edited by Christopher Townsend, Alex Trott and Rhys Davies

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Newcastle upon Tyne, England : , : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

1-4438-7020-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (225 p.)

Disciplina

700.4112

Soggetti

Modernism (Art)

Art, Modern - 19th century

Art, Modern - 20th century

Art, Modern - 21st century

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

CONTENTS; LIST OF IMAGES; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; CHAPTER SEVEN; CHAPTER EIGHT; CHAPTER NINE; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

There's nothing pure about modernism. For all the later critical emphasis upon 'medium specificity', modernist artists in their own times revel in the exchange of motifs and tropes from one kind of art to another; they revel in staging events where different media play crucial roles alongside each other, where different media interfere with each other, to spark new and surprising experiences for their audiences. This intermediality and multi-media activity is the subject of this important col...