Eccentric Modernisms

Making Differences in the History of American Art
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-0-520-28886-7
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 200 Seiten, Cloth Over Boards, Format (B × H): 276 mm x 218 mm, Gewicht: 702 g

What if we ascribe significance to aesthetic and social divergences rather than waving them aside as anomalous? What if we look closely at what does not appear central, or appears peripherally, or does not appear at all, viewing ellipses, outliers, absences, and outtakes as significant? Eccentric Modernisms places queer demands on art history, tracing the relational networks connecting cosmopolitan eccentrics who cultivated discrepant strains of modernism in America during the 1930s and 1940s. Building on the author’s earlier studies of Gertrude Stein and other lesbians who participated in transatlantic cultural exchanges between the world wars, this book moves in a different direction, focusing primarily on the gay men who formed Stein’s support network and whose careers, in turn, she helped to launch, including the neo-romantic painters Pavel Tchelitchew and writer-editor Charles Henri Ford. Eccentric Modernisms shows how these “eccentric modernists” bucked trends by working collectively, reveling in disciplinary promiscuity and sustaining creative affiliations across national and cultural boundaries.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Latimer, Tirza True

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Kunsttheorie, Kunstphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Kunstpsychologie und -soziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

Introduction: “Eccentric Propositions”
1. Dix Portraits
2. Four Saints in Three Acts
3. View: American Issues
Conclusion: “How to Look at Modern Art in America”

Notes
Selected Bibliography
Illustration Credits

Über Autor(innen)

Tirza True Latimer is Associate Professor and Chair of the Visual and Critical Studies Graduate Program at California College of the Arts in San Francisco.