Modernism's History a Study in Twentieth-Century Art and Ideas
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- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Yale Univ Pr
- Publish date: 10/01/1998
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The history of twentieth-century visual arts can no longer be written as a succession of avant-garde movements, contends eminent art historian Bernard Smith in this stimulating book. He argues that a return to the concept of period style is inevitable and that modernism -- the dominant "style" of art that emerged at the end of the nineteenth century and continued through the 1960s -- deserves recognition as a period style. Smith renames this period Formalesque since it is no longer modern and since it emphasizes the formal values of art more than any previous period does.
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In a wide-ranging reformulation of art history in the twentieth century, the author defines the nature and development of Formalesque -- an avant-garde style that arose between 1890 and the First World War, was institutionalized between the world wars, and flourished anew between 1945 and 1960. Identifying the Formalesque period, says Smith, makes it possible also to identify dialectical adversaries, such true oppositional avantgarde styles of the twentieth century as Dada, Surrealism, and the Neue Sachlichkeit. These constitute the formative elements of the modernism -- now called Postmodernism -- that became increasingly dominant after 1960.
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