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Auteur(s) : Slevin, Tom
Titre(s) : Visions of the human [Texte imprimé] : art, World War I and the modernist subject / Tom Slevin
Publication : London : Tauris et Co., 2015
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XII-331 p.) : ill. ; 23 cm
Collection : International Library of Modern and Contemporary Art ; 22
Lien à la collection : International library of modern and contemporary art
Note(s) : Bibliogr. p. 305-319. Index
In what ways do the artistic avant-garde's representations of the human body reflect
the catastrophe of World War I? The European modernists were inspired by developments
in the nineteenth-century, yielding new forms of knowledge about the nature of reality
and repositioning the human body as the new 'object' of knowledge. New 'visions' of
the human subject were created within this transformation. However, modernity's reactionary
political climate - for which World War I provided a catalyst - transformed a once
liberal ideal between humanity, environment, and technology, into a tool of disciplinary
rationalisation. Visions of the Human considers the consequences of this historical
moment for the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. It explores the ways in which
the 'technologies of the self' that inspired the avant-garde were increasingly instrumentalised
by conservative politics, urbanism, consumer capitalism and the society of 'the spectacle'.
This is an engaging and powerful study which challenges prior ideas and explores new
ways of thinking about modern visual culture
Sujet(s) : Corps humain -- Dans l'art
Art -- Europe -- 20e siècle
Guerre mondiale (1914-1918) -- Art et guerre
Modernisme (art) -- Europe
Indice(s) Dewey :
704.942 0904 (23e éd.) = Beaux-arts et arts décoratifs - Thème des figures humaines - 1900-1999
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781780766317. - ISBN 1780766319. - ISBN 1780766319 (erroné). - ISBN 9781857738912
(erroné) (rel.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb442005164
Notice n° :
FRBNF44200516
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