Machine Modernism, Masculinity, and the Trauma of War - The Art of Fernand Léger

"Investigates the artwork of Fernand Lâeger, one of machine modernism's leading figures, as a case study of the aesthetic's origins in World War I, its unstable production of masculinity, and its collapse in the context of surrealism, economic crises, and the revival of war memories"--

About the author

Maureen G. Shanahan is Professor of Art History at James Madison University. She has published some twenty articles on gender, trauma, Léger, and other modernist themes. She is coeditor of Simón Bolívar: Travels and Transformations of a Cultural Icon.

Product details

• Authors: Maureen G. Shanahan, Maureen G. (James Madison University) Shanahan, Shanahan Maureen G.
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.05.2024
• EAN: 9780271096858
• ISBN: 978-0-271-09685-8
• Dimensions: 203 mm x 241 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 1066 g
• Illustrations: Raster,schwarz-weiss, Raster, farbig
• Series: Refiguring Modernism
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; Europe, ART / European, ART / History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945), ART / Sculpture & Installation, ART / Individual Artists / Monographs, sculpture, History of Art, History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -, Painting & paintings, Individual artists, art monographs, Art & design styles: c 1900 to c 1960, c 1914 to c 1918 (including WW1), c 1914 to c 1918 (World War One period), Paintings and painting