Making the Americas Modern
Hemispheric Art 1910-1960
$68.78
- Hardcover
336 pages
- Release Date
15 October 2018
Summary
This book presents an audacious account of the ways in which the arts in the Americas were modernized during the first half of the 20th century. Rather than viewing modernization as a steady progression from one ‘ism’ to another, Edward J Sullivan adopts a comparative approach, drawing his examples from North America, the Caribbean, Central and South America.
By considering the Americas in this hemispheric sense he is able to tease out many stories of art and focus on the ways in whic…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781786271556 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1786271559 |
| Author: | Edward J. Sullivan |
| Publisher: | Laurence King Publishing |
| Imprint: | Laurence King Publishing |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Release Date: | 15 October 2018 |
| Weight: | 300g |
| Dimensions: | 165mm x 240mm |
| Series: | Global Perspectives Art History |
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Critics Review
”.among Sullivan’s most significant achievements is his wholesale invention of new descriptive language. There is no doubt that this book will aid us all in the urgent project of dissolving the national borders-and patriotic chauvinism-that have shaped art histories. But its most enduring contribution is that it poses questions that we will be striving to answer for some time to come.” -Harper Montgomery, Review: Literature and Arts of the Americas
Edward J. Sullivan
Edward J Sullivan is the Helen Gould Sheppard Professor of Art History at New York University. He has written numerous books on 19th- and 20th-century art of the Americas and the Iberian Peninsula.
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