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In visible touch : modernism and masculinity /

Contributor(s): Publication details: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ©1997.Description: 257 pages : illustrations ; 26 cmISBN:
  • 0226764117
  • 9780226764115
  • 0226764125
  • 9780226764122
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • N8222.M38 I5 1997
Contents:
Intensity : modernism's phallic aesthetics / Terry Smith -- Freud's Cézanne / T.J. Clark -- Masculinity, muscularity and modernity in Caillebotte's male figures / Tamar Garb -- Expression, disfiguration : Matisse, the female nude and the academic eye / Roger Benjamin -- Mother and son : Boccioni's paintings and sculpture, 1906-1915 / Virginia Spate -- Popular culture of Kermesse : Lewis, painting and performance, 1912-13 / Lisa Tickner -- Modernity and the formalesque / Bernard Smith -- Breath of modernism (metonymic drift) / Richard Shiff -- What do pictures want? an idea of visual culture / W.J.T. Mitchell -- Gloria Patri : a conversation about power, sexuality and war / Mary Kelly & Terry Smith.
Summary: "In this collection, outstanding historians and theorists explore the representation of heterosexual masculinity embodied in modernist art. Examining such major European modernists as Cezanne, Caillebotte, Matisse, Wyndham Lewis, and Boccioni, these writings offer a history of how artists sought to shape their sexuality in their work. In turn, the essays also show how the artists were shaped by the historical shifts in the gender order and by the exchanges between sexualities occurring in their social worlds. For example, the piece on Wyndham Lewis shows how he subscribed to an exaggerated masculinism, while the essays on Boccioni and Matisse bring out the efforts by these men to understand feminine sexuality. In the theoretical essays, Bernard Smith questions modernism itself as a style category. And Richard Shiff and W.J.T. Mitchell trace the consequences for art theory of recognizing the physical presence of modernist artworks and the agency of imagery in our encounter with contemporary art." http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/description/uchi052/97023345.html.
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Includes bibliographical references (page 251).

Intensity : modernism's phallic aesthetics / Terry Smith -- Freud's Cézanne / T.J. Clark -- Masculinity, muscularity and modernity in Caillebotte's male figures / Tamar Garb -- Expression, disfiguration : Matisse, the female nude and the academic eye / Roger Benjamin -- Mother and son : Boccioni's paintings and sculpture, 1906-1915 / Virginia Spate -- Popular culture of Kermesse : Lewis, painting and performance, 1912-13 / Lisa Tickner -- Modernity and the formalesque / Bernard Smith -- Breath of modernism (metonymic drift) / Richard Shiff -- What do pictures want? an idea of visual culture / W.J.T. Mitchell -- Gloria Patri : a conversation about power, sexuality and war / Mary Kelly & Terry Smith.

"In this collection, outstanding historians and theorists explore the representation of heterosexual masculinity embodied in modernist art. Examining such major European modernists as Cezanne, Caillebotte, Matisse, Wyndham Lewis, and Boccioni, these writings offer a history of how artists sought to shape their sexuality in their work. In turn, the essays also show how the artists were shaped by the historical shifts in the gender order and by the exchanges between sexualities occurring in their social worlds. For example, the piece on Wyndham Lewis shows how he subscribed to an exaggerated masculinism, while the essays on Boccioni and Matisse bring out the efforts by these men to understand feminine sexuality. In the theoretical essays, Bernard Smith questions modernism itself as a style category. And Richard Shiff and W.J.T. Mitchell trace the consequences for art theory of recognizing the physical presence of modernist artworks and the agency of imagery in our encounter with contemporary art." http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/description/uchi052/97023345.html.

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