Antimodernism and Artistic Experience: Policing the Boundaries of Modernity

✍ Scribed by Lynda Lee Jessup (editor)

• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Year: 2001
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 305
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Scholars in art history, anthropology, history, and feminist media studies explore Western antimodernism of the turn of the 20th century as an artistic response to a perceived loss of ?authentic? experience.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
List of Illustrations
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Antimodernism and Artistic Experience: An Introduction
Part One
1. Introduction to Part One: Around and About Modernity: Some Comments on Themes of Primitivism and Modernism
2. Performing the Native Woman: Primitivism and Mimicry in Early Twentieth-Century Visual Culture
3. The Colonial Lens: Gauguin, Primitivism, and Photography in the Fin de siècle
4. Emily Carr and the Traffic in Native Images
Part Two.
5. Introduction to Part Two: Staging Antimodernism in the Age of High Capitalist Nationalism
6. Modernists and Folk on the Lower St Lawrence: The Problem of Folk Art
7. Handicrafts and the Logic of 'Commercial Antimodernism': The Nova Scotia Case
8. Bushwhackers in the Gallery: Antimodernism and the Group of Seven
Part Three
9. Introduction to Part Three: Modernity, Nostalgia, and the Standardization of Time
10. Artisans and Art Nouveau in Fin-de-siecle Belgium: Primitivism and Nostalgia
11. Van Gogh in the South: Antimodernism and Exoticism in the Arlesian Paintings
12. Plays without People: Shadow Puppets of Modernity in Fin-de-siècle Paris
13. Primitivism in Sweden: Dormant Desire or Fictional Identity?
Selected Bibliography
Contributors