Modernism and still life : artists, writers, dancers /

The late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries have been characterised as the 'age of speed' but they also witnessed a reanimation of still life across different art forms. This book takes an original approach to still life in modern literature and the visual arts by examining the poten...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Tobin, Claudia (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2020]
Series:Edinburgh critical studies in modernist culture.
Subjects:
Still-life in art.
Still-life in literature.
Movement in literature.
Dance.
Modernism (Art)
Modernism (Literature)
Modernisme (Art)
Modernisme (Littérature)
Nature morte dans l'art.
Danse.
dances (performing arts compositions)
dances (performance events)
dance (performing arts genre)
ART > Criticism & Theory.
Dance
Movement in literature
Still-life in art
Still-life in literature
Avantgarde
Künste
Stillleben
Tanz > Motiv
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : 'Nothing is really statically at rest' : Cézanne and modern still life
  • 'Quivering yet still' : Virginia Woolf, Roger Fry and the aesthetics of attention
  • Still life in motion
  • 'Past the gap where we cannot see' : still life and the 'numinous' in British painting of the 1920s-1930s
  • 'Inactive contemplation' : Wallace Stevens and Charles Mauron
  • Conclusion : 'On the very brink of utterance' : Aldous Huxley, Mark Gertler and transfigured things.

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