Buch, Englisch, 222 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 522 g
Hoax, Parody, Deception
Buch, Englisch, 222 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 522 g
ISBN: 978-0-19-882543-2
Verlag: Sydney University Press
artistic sincerity, formalism, and the intentional fallacy. In doing so, it profoundly shaped the modern canon and its justifying principles.
Modernist Fraud explores a wide range of materials. It draws on reviews and newspaper accounts of art scandals, such as the 1913 Armory Show, the 1910 and 1912 Postimpressionist shows, and Tender Buttons; to daily syndicated columns; to parodies and doggerel; to actual hoaxes, such as Spectra and Disumbrationism; to the literary criticism of Edith Sitwell; to the trial of Brancusi's Bird in Space; and to the contents of the magazine Blind Man, including a defense of
Duchamp's Fountain, a poem by Bill Brown, and the works of, and an interview with, the bafflingly unstable painter Louis Eilshemius. In turning to these materials, the book reevaluates how modernism interacted with the public and describes how a new aesthetic begins: not as a triumphant explosion that initiates irrevocable
changes, but as an uncertain muddling and struggle with ideology.