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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Sam Rose (Lecturer in Art History, University of St. Andrews)Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press Imprint: Pennsylvania State University Press Volume: 28 Dimensions: Width: 17.80cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 24.10cm Weight: 0.386kg ISBN: 9780271082394ISBN 10: 0271082399 Pages: 224 Publication Date: 01 March 2020 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock  We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction Part One: Art Writing 1. Form and Modernist Aesthetics On or About 1910 2. The Science of Art Criticism After the 1910s Part Two: Art and Life 3. Mass Civilization and Minority Visual Culture 4. Design Theory and Marxist Art Writing: For and Against Mass Culture 5. Modernism and Form in Africa, Britain, and South Asia Notes Bibliography IndexReviewsA brilliant and timely account of aesthetic form and formalism. Debates about form are fundamental to modernism, and indeed to the story of the arts in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, yet until now we have been lacking a sustained investigation of how this came to be. Art and Form is a great work of art history, and it will also prove indispensable to literary scholars, philosophers, and cultural critics. -Rebecca Beasley, author of Ezra Pound and the Visual Culture of Modernism It's time we had a sophisticated account of form in the modern visual arts to replace the crude caricatures that have dominated the literature on so-called modernist formalism. Sam Rose supplies this with precision (in his careful readings of modernist texts that have too often been oversimplified) and imagination (in relating them to wider, sometimes surprising, contexts). Demolishing the notion that formalism must be escapist, he provides a cogent explanation for how the study of the Old Masters could go hand in hand with the theorization of a modern art. This lucidly written book not only challenges preconceptions about formalism but shows why we cannot ignore the question of form in discussions of the visual arts up to and including the present day. -Elizabeth Prettejohn, author of Art for Art's Sake: Aestheticism in Victorian Painting This is an exceptionally wide-ranging and successful study of a central topic in the history of modernism. Rose moves with enviable facility between archival research and historical concerns and a crisply incisive discussion of the status and integrity of the key ideas. The final section, which extends the story outward into new areas, will be an invaluable spur to future research. -David Peters Corbett, author of The World in Paint: Modern Art and Visuality in England, 1848-1914 This book is a gem. It gives the most comprehensive and accessible account of the importance of form in the last hundred years of writing about art. It should be compulsory reading not just for art historians, but also for aestheticians and anyone interested in visual culture. -Bence Nanay, author of Aesthetics as Philosophy of Perception Author InformationSam Rose is Lecturer in Art History at the University of St. Andrews. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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