A modern mosaic : art and modernism in the United States / edited by Townsend Ludington ; assistant editors, Thomas Fahy & Sarah P. Reuning.

Title & Author:

A modern mosaic : art and modernism in the United States / edited by Townsend Ludington ; assistant editors, Thomas Fahy & Sarah P. Reuning.

Publication:

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2000]
© 2000

Description:

439 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
White City elegy: modern and postmodern at the World's Fair / Robert Cantwell -- Modernism and the Negro renaissance / Jon Michael Spencer -- Exotic fantasies, shameful realities: race in the modern American freak show / Thomas Fahy -- Barren ground, mother earth: female embodiments of southern modernism / Lucinda H. MacKethan -- Modernism in practice: public readings of the new poetry / Joan Shelley Rubin -- Dances of the machine in early twentieth-century America / John F. Kasson -- George Antheil's Ballet mécanique and transatlantic modernism / Carol J. Oja -- Modern dance and the American century / Randy Martin -- Art in the Great Depression / William E. Leuchtenburg -- Between civics and politics: the modernist moment in federal public art / Casey Nelson Blake -- Illusion complete within itself: Roy DeCarava's photography / Maren Stange -- Portrait of the photographer as a young man: John Vachon and the FSA project / Miles Orvell -- The savage eye: Edward Hopper and the cinema / Lucy Fischer -- Two forms of cinematic modernism: notes toward a pragmatic aesthetic / Ray Carney.
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ISBN:

0807825786 (alk. paper)
9780807825785 (alk. paper)
0807848913 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780807848913 (pbk. ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Modernism (Art) United States.
Arts, American 20th century.
Popular culture United States History 20th century.
Modernisme (Art) États-Unis.
Arts américains 20e siècle.
Culture populaire États-Unis Histoire 20e siècle.
Arts, American
Modernism (Art)
Popular culture
Pop-Kultur
Moderne
Kunst
Künste
Modernisme (cultuur)
Modernisme (art) États-Unis.
Culture populaire États-Unis 20e siècle.
United States
USA

Form/genre:

History

Added entries:

Ludington, Townsend, 1936-2021, editor.

Art and modernism in the United States

Holdings:

Location: Library main 214905
Call No.: NX504 .M6 2000
Status: Available

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