Title & Author:

Make it new : the rise of modernism / Kurt Heinzelman, general editor.

Edition:

First edition.

Publication:

[Austin, Texas] : Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, 2003.
[Austin, Texas] : Distributed by the University of Texas Press, [date of distribution not identified]

Description:

155 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 x 31 cm

Notes:
"Published on the occasion of the exhibition Make it new, the rise of modernism, Cathy Henderson, Curator of Exhibitions, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at Austin, October 21, 2003 to March 7, 2004"--Page 3
Published in Austin, Texas
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The scale of William Gaddis / Russell Banks -- The immoveable feast of modernism / Julian Barnes -- Gifts above price: the legacy of Ezra Pound / Christine Brooke-Rose -- The rise of (Indian) modernism / Anita Desai -- Getting Started / David Douglas Duncan -- On As I lay dying / Elizabeth Hardwick -- Colonialism, E.M. Forster, and the carib bone-flute / Wilson Harris -- Get on with it / Dan Jacobson -- Paul Robeson: the power of the recital (1937) / Adrienne Kennedy -- The friendship of Virginia Woolf / Penelope Lively -- Henry Miller to Henry James / Ronald Sukenick -- What makes us modern / Arnold Wesker -- Exhibiting modernism: a view from the air / Daniel Albright.
Frank Lloyd Wright and Le Corbusier: essential modernists / Anthony Alofsin -- The sunwise turn: the modern book shop / Edward Bishop -- Original sin and The Heart of darkness: when T.E. Hulme met Joseph Conrad / Chris Fletcher -- "Make it new": the rise of an idea / Kurt Heinzelman -- Modernism's quest for invisible realities / Linda Dalrymple Henderson -- "The sloped whimsical ironic hand out of MIssissippi attenuated": Absalom, Absalom! in Mississippi / James G. Watson -- From Pelleas to Parade: the changing face of French musical modernism / Marianne Wheeldon.

Summary:

"What was Modernism, and why does it still matter? The term itself first gained currency in the 1930s, describing a kind of art that already may have peaked, some would say as early as 1922. Whatever its ups and downs in its own time, as the novelist Julian Barnes claims in one of the twenty essays commissioned for the present volume, Modernism never vanished. It remains our immovable feast." "Modernism was international in scope; it left its mark on all genres, from literature and painting to opera, dance, and architecture; it pushed the boundaries of what was artistically possible and aesthetically important; and finally, for all its destructive urges which it shared with the century itself, it was also celebrative." "This book is a response to the exhibition of the same name that opened at the Harry Ransom Center in October 2003. It includes original essays by such noted writers and artists as Russell Banks, Anita Desai, David Douglas Duncan, Elizabeth Hardwick, and Penelope Lively, which offer fresh perspectives on important Modernist figures, including William Gaddis, Ezra Pound, William Faulkner, E.M. Forster, Paul Robeson, Virginia Woolf, Henry James, Joseph Conrad, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Le Corbusier. In addition, essays by leading scholars in literature and art history focus on specific artifacts included in the exhibit. As the Center's Director, Thomas F. Staley, puts it in the Foreword, "Ours is an attempt not of definition but of discovery and rediscovery." Book and exhibition permit both reader and viewer to experience the textures, structures, and resonances which made the first part of the twentieth century so innovative that its art is still virtually synonymous with what "newness" means."--Jacket

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

0292702841
9780292702844

Subject:

Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center Exhibitions.
Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center
Arts, Modern 20th century Exhibitions.
Modernism (Aesthetics) 20th century Exhibitions.
Modernism (Art) 20th century Exhibitions.
Modernism (Literature) 20th century Exhibitions.
Modernism (Music) 20th century Exhibitions.
Modernism (Aesthetics)
Modernism (Art)
Modernism (Art) Exhibitions.
Arts 20e siècle Expositions.
Modernisme (Esthétique) 20e siècle Expositions.
Modernisme (Art) 20e siècle Expositions.
Modernisme (Littérature) 20e siècle Expositions.
Modernisme (Musique) 20e siècle Expositions.
Modernisme (Esthétique)
Modernisme (Art)
Modernisme (Art) Expositions.
Arts, Modern
Modernism (Literature)
Modernism (Music)
Kunst.
Modernisme (cultuur)
Modernisme (Littérature)
Littérature.
Musique.
Théâtre (Littérature)

Form/genre:

Exhibition catalogues.
Exhibition publications.
exhibition catalogs.
Exhibition catalogs
Catalogues d'exposition.

Added entries:

Heinzelman, Kurt, curator.
Henderson, Cathy, 1955- curator.
Staley, Thomas F., writer of foreword.
Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, sponsoring body.

Rise of modernism

Holdings:

Location: Library main m 241794
Call No.: N6494.M64 M34 2003
Status: Available