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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"American modernism"”.
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The Spiritual Curation of American Modernism
… bankrupt of spirit. In other words, the American institutionalization of modernism built its canon around spiritual systems of national aesthetic welfare. Crucial to these spiritual curators' respective operations would be the promotion of not just any abstraction but a radically …
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New Negro Artists and Post-War American Modernism: A Reconsideration
The study of American modernism tends to move through a series of major phases, with World War II as a historical divider between movements such as Regionalism and American Scene and later developments in formal abstraction associated with the New York School. Many scholars have adhered to this …
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Dialectical Metafiction and the Self-Conscious Subject of American Modernism
… and an accompanying melancholy within American Modernism during the canonization of its literary texts, or they have attempted to "recover" the once-thriving but now repressed political energies of Leftist literary texts. These projects raise questions about the validity of the …
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The Outward Turn: Personality, Blankness, and Allure in American Modernism
The history of personality in American literature has surprisingly little to do with the differentiating individuality we now tend to associate with the term. Scholars of nineteenth- and twentieth-century American culture have defined personality either as the morally vacuous successor to the …
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Lt. Claggett Wilson, queer masculinity, and the formation of American modernism /
An American artist best known for a 1919 watercolor series that depicts scenes of the First World War, Claggett Wilson's varied oeuvre includes watercolors, oil paintings, stage sets, costumes, murals, and decorative interiors. Through skilled social-networking, self-promotion, and a willingness to …
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This fact which is not one: differential poetics in transatlantic american modernism
… of the emergence of modern blackness freed from American capitalist narratives of progress to tell modernity in its own terms. Jack Spicer's practice of dictation becomes more than alien transmissions reaching a poet fatally estranged from the pre-Stonewall, Cold War social world; Heads of the …
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At the center of American modernism: Lola Ridge's politics, poetics, and publishing
… Others and Broom, places her at the center of American modernism. My examination of Ridge's social poetry and her role as editor for two leading literary magazines, in conjunction with her use of multiple aesthetics, will build a strong case for why her work deserves to be recovered.
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The Struggle to Re-establish Anglo Superiority in American Modernism and its Collapse into American Tragedy
… study of the impact Anglo race assertion had on American Modernism through the work of Fitzgerald, Hemingway, and T.S. Eliot shaping the discourse on American cultural identity. Arthur Miller and his "Tragedy and the Common Man" put an end to Modernism's Anglo stronghold and brought about the …
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New races, new media : the struggle for a modern American art, 1890-1925
American modernism was formulated at the turn of the twentieth century, when artists and intellectuals became newly self-conscious of their aesthetic strategies in a rapidly urbanizing United States. During that same period, new immigrants from Southern and Eastern Europe poured into the U.S., …
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Frank Overton Colbert: A Study in Trans-Customary Indigenous Modern Art
… male artists. When we look at the development of American modernism in fine art, particularly at the period between the Armory Show of 1913 and the onset of the Great Depression in 1929, artists fervently desired to create a distinctively American visual culture which moved beyond European …
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Embracing Fracture: The Buddhist Poetics of Allen Ginsberg and Norman Fischer
… of Buddhist thought and practice running through American Modernism and American Modernist Poetry. I examine the works, both poetic and critical, of two authors, Allen Ginsberg and Norman Fischer. I explore Allen Ginsberg's relationship with Buddhism, as it changed throughout his life, looking at …
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Developing experience : Alexander Dorner's Exhibitions, from Weimar Republic Germany to the Cold War United States
Following the work of German-American curator Alexander Dorner (1893-1957) from his early curatorial career in Niedersachsen to professorships in New England, this dissertation explores the intersections of Euro-American modernism and developing ideations of experience within aesthetic philosophy. …
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The Soviet pilgrimage : American writers in Russia, 1922-1947.
For a few decades following 1917, many American and European intellectuals attempted to understand the Soviet Union through travel. Hundreds of writers, journalists, academics, philosophers, engineers, and public intellectuals travelled to Russia (or, more properly, to the Soviet Union) to see the …
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A Foreign Mirror: Intertexts with Surrealism in Twentieth-Century U. S. Poetries
… Instead, translations of European and Latin American modernism prevailed. Often, multiple translations of the same author were produced by different translators at the expense of presenting a more well-rounded vision of national literatures. Of these translations, a surprisingly large number …
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The Integration of Art, Architecture, and Identity: Alfred Kastner, Louis Kahn, and Ben Shahn at Jersey Homesteads
… avant-garde European architectural forms into an American context in order to house the group in improved living conditions that suited their ambitious cooperative plans.</p> <p>The artworks created for Jersey Homesteads articulated the settlers’ aspirations for a better future and are a testament …
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Concrete dreams: architecture, politics, and Boston's New City Hall
… design that responded to trends in European and American modernism, as well as the politics of 1960s Boston. During the past 50 years, the building has become widely reviled because of its architectural style and political symbolism. At the same time, it has influenced architecture and politics …
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Forbidden Attraction: Russian Poets Read T. S. Eliot during the Cold War
… S. Eliot, one of the leading proponents of Anglo-American modernism, shaped the aesthetics of Russian poetry in the second half of the twentieth century. In the twentieth century, Russian culture found itself in a unique situation of separation from the Western world, with which it had largely …
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Building a Continent: The Idea of Latin American Architecture in the Early Postwar
… with the Office of the Coordinator of Inter American Affairs directed by Nelson Rockefeller, this exhibition presented a clear overlap between politics and modern architecture culture in the Americas that aimed to create a unified and defensible Western Hemisphere. This is a story that, …
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