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Record Nr.

UNINA9910816112003321

Autore

Rose Sam (Art historian)

Titolo

Art and form : from Roger Fry to global modernism / / Sam Rose

Pubbl/distr/stampa

University Park, Pennsylvania : , : The Pennsylvania State University Press, , [2019]

©2019

ISBN

0-271-08428-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (x, 208 pages) : illustrarions

Collana

Refiguring modernism

Disciplina

701.8

Soggetti

Formalism (Art)

Art - Philosophy

Art criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-201) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Form and modernist aesthetics on or about 1910 -- The science of art criticism after the 1910s -- Mass civilization and minority visual culture -- Design theory and Marxist art writing : for and against mass culture -- Modernism and form in Africa, Britain, and South Asia.

Sommario/riassunto

"Explores the rise of formalism in the visual arts. Employs an expanded sense of form to rethink a range of areas, including the history of writing about art, constructions of high and low culture, and the idea of global modernism"--Provided by publisher.