Companion to Modern Art

A Companion to Modern Art presents a series of original essays by international and interdisciplinary authors who offer a comprehensive overview of the origins and evolution of artistic works, movements, approaches, influences, and legacies of Modern Art.

• Presents a contemporary debate and dialogue rather than a seamless consensus on Modern Art
• Aims for reader accessibility by highlighting a plurality of approaches and voices in the field
• Presents Modern Art's foundational philosophic ideas and practices, as well as the complexities of key artists such as Cezanne and Picasso, and those who straddled the modern and contemporary
• Looks at the historical reception of Modern Art, in addition to the latest insights of art historians, curators, and critics to artists, educators, and more

Auteur

Pam Meecham is Professor of Museum Studies at the UCL Institute of Education, where she conducts research into institutional histories and the display of modernism. Meecham is the co-author of Making American Art (2009) and Modern Art: A Critical Introduction (2000, 2005).

Contenu

List of Figures ix

Acknowledgments xi

Notes on Contributors xiii

Introduction 1 Pam Meecham

Part I Ancient & Modern 15

1 Revitalizing Romanticism; or, Reflections on the Nietzschean Aesthetic and the Modern Imagination 17 Colin Trodd

2 A Cartography of Desires and Taboos: The Modern Primitive and the Antipodes 37 Andrew McNamara and Ann Stephen

3 Primitive/Modern/Contemporary 55 Paul Wood

4 Did Modernism Redefine Classicism? The Ancient Modernity of Classical Greek Art 73 Whitney Davis

5 Robert Goldwater and the Search for the Primitive: The Asmat Project at the Museum of Primitive Art 91 Nick Stanley

6 Surrealist Ireland: the Archaic, the Modern and the Marvelous 109 Fionna Barber

Part II Displaying the Modern 125

7 Picturing the Installation Shot 127 Julie Sheldon

8 Contemporary Displays of Modern Art 145 Pam Meecham

9 Camera-Eye: Photography and Modernism 167 Liz Wells

10 Photographic Installation Strategies En-bloc and In-the-round 187 Wiebke Leister

11 Documenta 6: Memories of Another Modernism 209 Judith Brocklehurst

Part III Re-assessments: Modernism and Globalization 227

12 Bijiasuo and Truth: Modernism Reassessed in an Era of Globalization 229 Jonathan Harris

13 Extensive Modernity: On the Refunctioning of Artists as Producers 245 Angela Dimitrakaki

14 Architecture's Modernisms 263 Richard J. Williams

15 The Wide Margins of the Century: Rural Modernism, Pastoral Peasants, and Economic Migrations 283 Rosemary Shirley

16 Destabilizing Essentialism through Localizing Modernism 299 Naoko Uchiyama

Part IV Locating Modernism: Multiple Modernisms and Nation Building 319

17 The Many Modernisms of Australian Art 321 Laura Back

18 Greek-Cypriot Locality: (Re) Defining our Understanding of European Modernity 339 Elena Stylianou and Nicos Philippou

19 A Northern Avant-garde: Spaces and Cultural Transfer 359 Annika O hrner

20 Modernisms, Genealogy, and Utopias in Finland 375 Renja Suominen-Kokkonen

21 The Engaged Artist: Considerations of Relevance 391 Greta Berman

22 Visualizing Figures of Caribbean Slavery through Modernism 411 Leon Wainwright

Part V The Modern Artist, the Modern Child, and a Modern Art Education 425

23 A Modern Art Education 427 Claire Robins

24 Misrecognition: Child's Play, Modern Art, and Vygotskian Psychology 453 Nicholas Addison

25 MoMA and the Modern Child: The Critical Role of Education Programming in MoMA's Modernism 473 Briley Rasmussen

26 Paul C ezanne's Young Girl at the Piano - Overture to "Tannh auser" or "Le Haschisch des femmes" 493 Anna Green

Index 517