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Modern art 1851-1929 : capitalism and representation / Richard A. Brettell.

By: Brettell, Richard R.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: Oxford history of art: Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1999Description: ix, 258 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm. + pbk.ISBN: 019284220X; 9780192842206.Subject(s): Art, Modern -- 19th century -- Europe | Art, European -- 20th centuryDDC classification: 709.04 BRE
Contents:
Introduction: The Great Exhibition of 1851, London -- Paris: the capital of modern art -- New technology -- The beginnings of modern art -- Realism to Surrealism -- Realism -- Impressionism -- Symbolism -- Post-Impressionism -- Neo-Impressionism -- Synthetism -- The Nabis -- The Fauves -- Expressionism -- Cubism -- Futurism -- Orphism -- Vorticism -- Suprematism/Constructivism -- Neo-Plasticism -- Dada -- Purism -- Surrealism -- The '-ism' problem -- The Conditions for Modern Art -- Urban Capitalism -- Paris and the birth of the modern city -- Capitalist society -- The commodification of art -- The modern condition -- Modernity, Representation, and the Accessible Image -- The art museum -- Temporary exhibitions -- Lithography -- Photography -- The Artist's Response -- Representation, Vision, and 'Reality': The Art of Seeing -- The human eye -- Transparency and unmediated modernism -- Surface fetishism and unmediated modernism -- Photography and unmediated modernism -- Beyond the oil sketch -- Cubism -- Image/Modernism and the Graphic Traffic -- The Pre-Raphaelite brotherhood -- Puvis de Chavannes and Gustave Moreau: image/modernism outside the avant-garde -- Image/modernism outside France -- Exhibitions of the avant-garde -- Fragmentation, dislocation, and recombination -- Iconology -- Sexuality and the Body -- Manet's bodies -- Modern art and pornography -- The nude and the modernist cycle of life -- The bathing nude -- The allegorical or non-sexual nude -- Colonialism and the nude: the troubled case of Gauguin.
Summary: The period 1851 to 1929 witnessed the rise of the major European avant-garde groups: the Realists, Impressionists, Post-Impressionists, Symbolists, Cubists, and Surrealists. It was also a time of rapid social, economic, and political change, encompassing a revolution in communication systems and technology, and an unprecedented growth in the availability of printed images. Richard Brettell's innovative account explores the aims and achievements -- the beautiful and the bizarre -- of artists such as Monet, Gauguin, Picasso, and Dali, in relation to urban capitalism and expansion, colonialism, nationalism and internationalism, and the museum. Tracing common themes of representation, imagination, perception, and sexuality across works in a wide range of different media he presents a fresh approach to the fine art and photography of this remarkable era. -- Back cover.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

The period 1851 to 1929 witnessed the rise of the major European avant-garde groups: the Realists, Impressionists, Post-Impressionists, Symbolists, Cubists, and Surrealists. It was also a time of rapid social, economic, and political change, encompassing a revolution in communication systems and technology, and an unprecedented growth in the availability of printed images. Richard Brettell's innovative account explores the aims and achievements -- the beautiful and the bizarre -- of artists such as Monet, Gauguin, Picasso, and Dali, in relation to urban capitalism and expansion, colonialism, nationalism and internationalism, and the museum. Tracing common themes of representation, imagination, perception, and sexuality across works in a wide range of different media he presents a fresh approach to the fine art and photography of this remarkable era.

Includes bibliographical references and (p. 232-238) and index.

Introduction: The Great Exhibition of 1851, London -- Paris: the capital of modern art -- New technology -- The beginnings of modern art -- Realism to Surrealism -- Realism -- Impressionism -- Symbolism -- Post-Impressionism -- Neo-Impressionism -- Synthetism -- The Nabis -- The Fauves -- Expressionism -- Cubism -- Futurism -- Orphism -- Vorticism -- Suprematism/Constructivism -- Neo-Plasticism -- Dada -- Purism -- Surrealism -- The '-ism' problem -- The Conditions for Modern Art -- Urban Capitalism -- Paris and the birth of the modern city -- Capitalist society -- The commodification of art -- The modern condition -- Modernity, Representation, and the Accessible Image -- The art museum -- Temporary exhibitions -- Lithography -- Photography -- The Artist's Response -- Representation, Vision, and 'Reality': The Art of Seeing -- The human eye -- Transparency and unmediated modernism -- Surface fetishism and unmediated modernism -- Photography and unmediated modernism -- Beyond the oil sketch -- Cubism -- Image/Modernism and the Graphic Traffic -- The Pre-Raphaelite brotherhood -- Puvis de Chavannes and Gustave Moreau: image/modernism outside the avant-garde -- Image/modernism outside France -- Exhibitions of the avant-garde -- Fragmentation, dislocation, and recombination -- Iconology -- Sexuality and the Body -- Manet's bodies -- Modern art and pornography -- The nude and the modernist cycle of life -- The bathing nude -- The allegorical or non-sexual nude -- Colonialism and the nude: the troubled case of Gauguin.

The period 1851 to 1929 witnessed the rise of the major European avant-garde groups: the Realists, Impressionists, Post-Impressionists, Symbolists, Cubists, and Surrealists. It was also a time of rapid social, economic, and political change, encompassing a revolution in communication systems and technology, and an unprecedented growth in the availability of printed images. Richard Brettell's innovative account explores the aims and achievements -- the beautiful and the bizarre -- of artists such as Monet, Gauguin, Picasso, and Dali, in relation to urban capitalism and expansion, colonialism, nationalism and internationalism, and the museum. Tracing common themes of representation, imagination, perception, and sexuality across works in a wide range of different media he presents a fresh approach to the fine art and photography of this remarkable era. -- Back cover.

CIT Module ARTS 6001 - Core reading.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Introduction: The Great Exhibition of 1851, London (p. 1)
  • Paris: the capital of modern art (p. 3)
  • New technology (p. 3)
  • The beginnings of modern art (p. 5)
  • Part I Realism to Surrealism (p. 9)
  • Realism (p. 13)
  • Impressionism (p. 15)
  • Symbolism (p. 19)
  • Post-Impressionism (p. 21)
  • Neo-Impressionism (p. 24)
  • Synthetism (p. 26)
  • The Nabis (p. 27)
  • The Fauves (p. 29)
  • Expressionism (p. 30)
  • Cubism (p. 32)
  • Futurism (p. 35)
  • Orphism (p. 36)
  • Vorticism (p. 38)
  • Suprematism/Constructivism (p. 39)
  • Neo-Plasticism (p. 40)
  • Dada (p. 42)
  • Purism (p. 43)
  • Surrealism (p. 44)
  • The '-ism' problem (p. 46)
  • Part II The Conditions for Modern Art (p. 49)
  • Chapter 1 Urban Capitalism (p. 51)
  • Paris and the birth of the modern city (p. 52)
  • Capitalist society (p. 56)
  • The commodification of art (p. 58)
  • The modern condition (p. 60)
  • Chapter 2 Modernity, Representation, and the Accessible Image (p. 65)
  • The art museum (p. 67)
  • Temporary exhibitions (p. 70)
  • Lithography (p. 72)
  • Photography (p. 74)
  • Conclusion (p. 78)
  • Part III The Artist's Response (p. 81)
  • Chapter 3 Representation, Vision, and 'Reality': The Art of Seeing (p. 83)
  • The human eye (p. 86)
  • Transparency and unmediated modernism (p. 87)
  • Surface fetishism and unmediated modernism (p. 89)
  • Photography and unmediated modernism (p. 92)
  • Beyond the oil sketch (p. 95)
  • Cubism (p. 97)
  • Chapter 4 Image/Modernism and the Graphic Traffic (p. 105)
  • The Pre-Raphaelite brotherhood (p. 110)
  • Puvis de Chavannes and Gustave Moreau: image/modernism outside the avant-garde (p. 111)
  • Image/modernism outside France (p. 114)
  • Exhibitions of the avant-garde (p. 116)
  • Fragmentation, dislocation, and recombination (p. 120)
  • Part IV Iconology (p. 125)
  • Introduction (p. 127)
  • Chapter 5 Sexuality and the Body (p. 131)
  • Manet's bodies (p. 131)
  • Modern art and pornography (p. 136)
  • The nude and the modernist cycle of life (p. 138)
  • The bathing nude (p. 141)
  • The allegorical or non-sexual nude (p. 146)
  • Colonialism and the nude: the troubled case of Gauguin (p. 147)
  • The bride stripped bare (p. 150)
  • Body parts and fragments (p. 151)
  • Chapter 6 Social Class and Class Consciousness (p. 155)
  • Seurat and A Summer Sunday on the Island of the Grande Jatte (1884) (p. 155)
  • Class issues in modernist culture (p. 159)
  • Portraiture (p. 163)
  • Images of peasantry (p. 170)
  • The worker and modern art (p. 174)
  • Chapter 7 Anti-Iconography: Art Without 'Subject' (p. 181)
  • Landscape painting (p. 181)
  • Text and image (p. 187)
  • Abstraction (p. 190)
  • Chapter 8 Nationalism and Internationalism in Modern Art (p. 197)
  • National identity (p. 197)
  • Time and place (p. 200)
  • Abstract art, spiritualism, and internationalism (p. 202)
  • Nationalist landscape painting (p. 206)
  • Afterword: The Private Institutionalization of Modern Art (p. 211)
  • Notes (p. 218)
  • List of Illustrations (p. 226)
  • Bibliographic Essay (p. 232)
  • Timeline (p. 240)
  • Index (p. 250)

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Richard Brettell is Professor of Aesthetic Studies at the University of Texas at Dallas

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