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Cornell University Press, Ithaca [N.Y.]
In a masterly book on the sociology of modernism, Janet Wolff explores work that was primarily realist and figurative and investigates the processes by which art fell by the wayside in the post-war period Introduction: Anglomodern: the painting of...
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In a masterly book on the sociology of modernism, Janet Wolff explores work that was primarily realist and figurative and investigates the processes by which art fell by the wayside in the post-war period Introduction: Anglomodern: the painting of modern life -- Women at the Whitney, 1910-30: feminism, sociology, aesthetics -- Questions of discovery: the art of Kathleen McEnergy -- Gender and the haunting or cities: or, the retirement of the Flâneur -- The feminine in modern art: Benjamin, Simmel, and the gender of modernity -- The failure of a hard sponge: class, Ethnicity, and the art of Mark Gertler -- The "Jewish mark" in English painting: cultural identity and modern art -- Afterword: Modernism, realism, revisionism
