Realism after Modernism
The Rehumanization of Art and Literature
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- Paperback
416 pages
- Release Date
30 January 2015
Summary
The paradox at the heart of the return to realism in the interwar years, as seen in work by Moholy-Nagy, Brecht, and others.The human figure made a spectacular return in visual art and literature in the 1920s. Following modernism’s withdrawal, nonobjective painting gave way to realistic depictions of the body and experimental literary techniques were abandoned for novels with powerfully individuated characters. But the celebrated return of the human in the interwar years was not as straightfo…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262527620 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0262527626 |
| Author: | Devin Fore |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 416 |
| Release Date: | 30 January 2015 |
| Weight: | 856g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 178mm x 19mm |
| Series: | October Books |
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Fore shows that if the ‘new man’ envisioned in the figurative practices of Weimar Germany might seem at the center of the universe, he is in fact a prosthetic man: He has become a mere organ of that universe, which is now fully one of techniques and media. Fore’s conclusion resonates powerfully with our own historical status in the Internet age and indeed the interwar discourses he engages are finding surprising echoes in current anthropology and media studies.
—Yve-Alain Bois, Artforum, “The Best Books of 2012”About The Author
Devin Fore
Devin Fore is Associate Professor in the Department of German at Princeton University.
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