Antimodernism & Artistic Exper

Antimodernism is a term used to describe the international reaction to the onslaught of the modern world that swept across industrialized Western Europe, North America, and Japan in the decades around the turn of the twentieth century. Scholars in art history, anthropology, political science, history, and feminist media studies explore antimodernism as an artistic response to a perceived sense of loss - in particular, the loss of 'authentic' experience.

Embracing the 'authentic' as a redemptive antidote to the threat of unheralded economic and social change, antimodernism sought out experience supposedly embodied in pre-industrialized societies - in medieval communities or 'oriental cultures, ' in the Primitive, the Traditional, or Folk. In describing the ways in which modern artists used antimodern constructs in formulating their work, the contributors examine the involvement of artists and intellectuals in the reproduction and diffusion of these concepts. In doing so they reveal the interrelation of fine art, decorative art, souvenir or tourist art, and craft, questioning the ways in which these categories of artistic expression reformulate and naturalise social relations in the field of cultural production.

Author: Lynda Lee Jessup
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 01/26/2001
Pages: 306
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.31lbs
Size: 9.74h x 6.84w x 0.82d
ISBN: 9780802083548

About the Author
Jessup, Lynda Lee: - Lynda Lee Jessup is Assistant Professor in the Art Department at Queen's University.

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