Modernist Fraud
Hoax, Parody, Deception
(Sprache: Englisch)
A study of literature and the visual arts from 1910 to 1935 that explores the notion that modernism was a fraud.
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A study of literature and the visual arts from 1910 to 1935 that explores the notion that modernism was a fraud.
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Focusing on literature and visual art in the years 1910-1935, Modernist Fraud begins with the omnipresent accusations that modernism was not art at all, but rather an effort to pass off patently absurd works as great art. These assertions, common in the time's journalism, are used to understand the aesthetic and context which spawned them, and to look at what followed in their wake. Fraud discourse ventured into the aesthetic theory of the time, to ideas of artistic sincerity, formalism, and the intentional fallacy. In doing so, it profoundly shaped the modern canon and its justifying principles. Modernist Fraud explores a wide range of materials. It draws on reviews and newspaper accounts of art scandals, such as the 1913 Armory Show, the 1910 and 1912 Postimpressionist shows, and Tender Buttons; to daily syndicated columns; to parodies and doggerel; to actual hoaxes, such as Spectra and Disumbrationism; to the literary criticism of Edith Sitwell; to the trial of Brancusi's Bird in Space; and to the contents of the magazine Blind Man, including a defense of Duchamp's Fountain, a poem by Bill Brown, and the works of, and an interview with, the bafflingly unstable painter Louis Eilshemius. In turning to these materials, the book reevaluates how modernism interacted with the public and describes how a new aesthetic begins: not as a triumphant explosion that initiates irrevocable changes, but as an uncertain muddling and struggle with ideology.
Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „Modernist Fraud “
- Preface
- 1: Rereading the Shameless Puffery of Modern Charlatans
- 2: Default Settings
- 3: Modern Parody
- 4: Sincerity's Champions
- 5: Modernists Reading Themselves
- 6: Intent in Practice
Autoren-Porträt von Leonard Diepeveen
Leonard Diepeveen is the George Munro Professor of Literature and Rhetoric at Dalhousie University. He is the author of The Difficulties of Modernism (Routledge, 2003) and Mock Modernism: An Anthology of Parodies, Travesties, Frauds, 1910-1935 (Toronto 2014). He is also co-author, with Timothy van Laar, of Artworld Prestige: Arguing Cultural Value (Oxford, 2013). His edition of Tender Buttons was published by Broadview Press in 2018.Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Leonard Diepeveen
- 2019, 222 Seiten, Maße: 15,6 x 23,4 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- ISBN-10: 0198825439
- ISBN-13: 9780198825432
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
Here is a wonder of a book: a new story about how modernism came to be. Jayme Stayer, The Review of English Studies
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