AngloModern : painting and modernity in Britain and the United States
In a masterly book on the sociology of modernism, Janet Wolff explores work that was primarily realist and figurative and investigates the processes by which art fell by the wayside in the post-war period
Print Book, English, 2003
Cornell University Press, Ithaca [N.Y.], 2003
xi, 172 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780801439230, 9780801487422, 080143923X, 0801487420
50859019
Introduction: Anglomodern: the painting of modern life
Women at the Whitney, 1910-30: feminism, sociology, aesthetics
Questions of discovery: the art of Kathleen McEnergy
Gender and the haunting or cities: or, the retirement of the Flâneur
The feminine in modern art: Benjamin, Simmel, and the gender of modernity
The failure of a hard sponge: class, Ethnicity, and the art of Mark Gertler
The "Jewish mark" in English painting: cultural identity and modern art
Afterword: Modernism, realism, revisionism