The Old Guard and the Avant-Garde

The Old Guard and the Avant-Garde
Author: Sue Ann Prince
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 344
Release: 1990
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780226682846

"The Old Guard and the Avant-Garde: Modernism in Chicago, 1910-1940 brings together the history and the critical reaction to the new developments in art and design, places them in the context of conservative yet innovative Chicago at the turn of the century, and explores the tensions between tradition and innovation. The individual essays present the best in specialized current research, yet one can clearly understand the impact of modernism on the broader intellectual and cultural life of the city. I eagerly await as cohesive and thorough an analysis of the subject for New York."—David Sokol, University of Chicago "This is fresh and fascinating research about the ups and downs of modernism in Chicago, a city where art students reportedly once hung Matisse in effigy. Regional studies like this one broaden our understanding of how the art world has worked outside of New York and gives depth to a story we know too narrowly. Applause all the way around."—Wanda M. Corn, Stanford University

Photography's Antiquarian Avant-Garde

Photography's Antiquarian Avant-Garde
Author: Lyle Rexer
Publisher: Abradale Press
Total Pages: 166
Release: 2002-05
Genre: Photography
ISBN:

And now, for the first time in book form, Photography's Antiquarian Avant-Garde charts this full-blown rebellion of contemporary photographers against the advent of digital technology and their reversion to photographic methods used in the nineteenth century.".

Prepare for Saints

Prepare for Saints
Author: Steven Watson
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 390
Release: 2000-07-16
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780520223530

A cultural history of a famous collaboration, Virgil Thomson's and Gertrude Stein's making of the modernist opera, Four Saints in Three Acts. Watson explores the transatlantic, commercial, racial, gay, and artistic aspects of this story (NewYork/Paris, with Kansas City thrown in for fun; Thomson's score echoes the very American rhythms of his youth). Juicy, smart, and sophisticated writing and analysis.

Key Themes in Qualitative Research

Key Themes in Qualitative Research
Author: Paul Atkinson
Publisher: Rowman Altamira
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2004-01-01
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 0585463883

Key Themes in Qualitative Research is an attempt by three well-respected ethnographic researchers to present a balanced view of qualitative methodology and research. The book is structured around classic texts, written by methodological pioneers, which comprise the basic foundation of modern qualitative research. The authors examine key premises in these texts, such as intimacy, advocacy, and validity, and how they may be supported, redesigned, or made problematic in today's field. This allows for a critical analysis of Old Guard vs. Avant-Garde ideas and provides for the reader a guide to wade through the proliferation of texts and theories available since the postmodern turn. While not designed as a primer in qualitative research methods, anyone with modest experience in the field should find this book extremely useful.

Transatlantic Avant-Gardes

Transatlantic Avant-Gardes
Author: Eric B White
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2013-03-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0748645225

Provides an alternative account of the modernist transatlanticTransatlantic Avant-Gardes offers a revisionary account of the evolution of twentieth-century modernism. Complimenting recent studies of modernist expatriates, Eric White explores new points of contact between European and American avant-gardes to place 'located' figures such as William Carlos Williams, Marianne Moore, Wallace Stevens, Jean Toomer, and Alfred Kreymborg back into the 'global design' of literary modernism. Focusing on artist-run 'little magazines' (including Others, Contact, The Little Review, Blast, The Dial, Fire!!, and Pagany) and selected fine press publications and mainstream periodicals, White also reconsiders the boundaries that traditionally divide modernist literature into 'exile' and 'localist', or 'regionalist' and 'cosmopolitan', factions. Thus, the book proposes a version of localist modernism that prioritises issues of geographic and textual 'location' to deliver a 'networked' approach to American modernism in the transatlantic context. Combining literary-historical, textual, and cultural criticism, Transatlantic Avant-Gardes provides a new reading of the specialised literary networks that interrogated the relationship between geographic place, textual space and national identity in the modernist transatlantic.

Modernism the Lure of Heresy

Modernism the Lure of Heresy
Author: Peter Gay
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 664
Release: 2008
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9780393052053

This is a brilliant, provocative long essay on the rise and fall and survival of modernism, by the English-languages' greatest living cultural historian.

Literary Depictions of the Scribal Profession in the Story of Ahiqar and Jeremiah 36

Literary Depictions of the Scribal Profession in the Story of Ahiqar and Jeremiah 36
Author: James D. Moore
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 222
Release: 2021-12-06
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 3110753049

In der Reihe Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft (BZAW) erscheinen Arbeiten zu sämtlichen Gebieten der alttestamentlichen Wissenschaft. Im Zentrum steht die Hebräische Bibel, ihr Vor- und Nachleben im antiken Judentum sowie ihre vielfache Verzweigung in die benachbarten Kulturen der altorientalischen und hellenistisch-römischen Welt. Die BZAW akzeptiert Manuskriptvorschläge, die einen innovativen und signifikanten Beitrag zu Erforschung des Alten Testaments und seiner Umwelt leisten, sich intensiv mit der bestehenden Forschungsliteratur auseinandersetzen, stringent aufgebaut und flüssig geschrieben sind.

Hollywood Flatlands

Hollywood Flatlands
Author: Esther Leslie
Publisher: Verso
Total Pages: 372
Release: 2004-06-17
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9781844675043

Brings to light the links between animation, avant-garde art and modernist criticism.

A Genealogy of Modernism

A Genealogy of Modernism
Author: Michael Harry Levenson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 272
Release: 1986-06-27
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780521338004

A Geneology of Modernism is a study of literary transition in the first two decades of the twentieth-century, a period of extraordinary ferment and great accomplishment, during which the avant-garde gradually consolidated a secure place within English culture. Michael Levenson analyses that complex process by following the successive phases of a literary movement - Impressionist, Imagist, Vorticist, Classicist - as it attempted to formulate the principles on which a new aesthetic might be founded. The emphasis here falls on the ideology of modernism, but throughout the book the ideological question is tied on the one hand to specific literary works and on the other to general movements in philosophy and the fine arts. The major figures under discussion, Joseph Conrad, Ford Madox Ford, Ezra Pound, Wyndham Lewis, and T. S. Elliot, are placed in relation to thinkers who have been largely neglected in the history of modernism: Max Stirner, Wilhelm Worringer, Pierre Lasserre, Allen Upward, and Hilaire Belloc. Levenson thus situates the emergence of a modernist aesthetic within the context of literary theory, literary practice, and cultural history.