Awards

• Winner of Modernist Studies Association Book Prize 2013 (United States)

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Author:   Jeremy Braddock (Associate Professor, Cornell University)
Publisher:   Johns Hopkins University Press
Imprint:   Johns Hopkins University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.70cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.590kg
ISBN:  

9781421403649

ISBN 10:   1421403641
Pages:   336
Publication Date:   11 April 2012
Recommended Age:   From 17
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Introduction: Collections Mediation Modernist 1. After Imagisme The Lyric Year and the Crisis in Cultural Valuation The Anthology as Weapon The Others Formation Reprisal Anthologies 2. The Domestication of Modernism: The Phillips Memorial Gallery in the 1920s Pictorial Publicity Subconscious Stimulation, a Professional Public Sphere Problems in Collecting Pictures Akhenaten, Patron of Modernism 3. The Barnes Foundation, Institution of the New Psychologies Against Dilettantism A System for the New Spirit Collection and Institution The Art of Memory in the Age of the Unconscious 4. The New Negro in the Field of Collections Sage Homme Noir Precursor Anthologies Coterie, Movement, Race The Heritage of The New Negro Downstairs from the Harlem Museum 5. Modernism's Archives: Afterlives of the Modernist Collection Two Termini Two Consecrations Two Archives Notes Bibliography Index

Reviews

A book that's going to rewrite what we think about art objects, poems, property, museums, anthologies-and race and modernity and on and on... So comprehensive is it that it will be impossible to ignore. -- Tim Morton Ecology Without Nature 2012 The breadth of his scholarship, evidenced by the seventy pages dedicated to the index and bibliography, makes this title a critical addition to libraries supporting modern art collections and modern art history programs. Art Libraries Society of North America 2012 An acute and important book. The Nation Braddock's book stands as a towering achievement. Essential. Choice 2012

So comprehensive is it that it will be impossible to ignore. -- Tim Morton Ecology Without Nature 2012

Author Information

Jeremy Braddock is an associate professor of English at Cornell University.

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