Modernism and the museum: Asian, African, and Pacific art and the london avant-garde

By demonstrating that many of the concepts and styles associated with Modernism were actually derived directly from cultures such as Japan, China, Korea, India, Egypt, Assyria, West Africa, and the Pacific Islands, this book providesan entirely new way of looking at the evolution of Modernist art and literature in the West. INDICE: Introduction; 1: The Dead Hand of Athens: Jacob Epstein, James Havard Thomas, and Provincialism in European Art; 2: An Indian Temple on the Strand: Charles Holden, Ananda Coomaraswamy, and London's First Modernist Sculptures; 3: Haunting the Reading Room: Ezra Pound and the British Museum's Egyptian and Assyrian Collections; 4: Nineveh, Amarna, Kyoto: Gill, Epstein, Gaudier-Brzeska, and the Direct Carving Revolution; 5: 'Little Japanese Pictures': Ezra Pound, Laurence Binyon, and the British Museum Print Room; 6: China in Whitechapel; Japan in Shepherd's Bush, Aldington, Ford, Pound, Fletcher, and Lowell; 7: 'The More Serious Art that One Likes': T.E. Hulme, Jacob Epstein, and the Making of a Global Classicism; 8: 'The Benin Things are Fine, Fine': The Art of Africa and the Pacific Islands The Art of Africa and the Pacific Islands The Art of Africa and the Pacific Islands in Pre-War London; 9: 'Kuanon of allDelights': Seven Lakes, Eight Views, and the Korean Goddess of The Cantos; Select Bibliography

• ISBN: 978-0-19-959369-9
• Editorial: Oxford University
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 248
• Fecha Publicación: 25/11/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés