Mumford on Modern Art in the 1930s

Informationen zum Autor Robert Wojtowicz is Associate Professor of Art History at Old Dominion University and a leading expert on the life and work of Lewis Mumford. He is the author of Lewis Mumford and American Modernism: European Theories for Architecture and Urban Planning ! the editor of Sidewalk Critic: Lewis Mumford's Writings on New York! and the coeditor of F rank Lloyd Wright and Lewis Mumford: Thirty Years of Correspondence. Klappentext "Superbly crafted little essays! Lewis Mumford's New Yorker pieces called 'The Art Galleries' well deserve this handsome republication. They offer supremely tasteful guided tours of the galleries and museums of Manhattan at the time when the canon of Western art! including modernism! was being secured! against a background of tension between abstraction and realism and between aestheticism and social commitment. The essays are a gift for our own troubled times from one of the great humane and versatile critics of the twentieth century; they offer the reassurance of urbanity! poise! and commitment to art as a primary social necessity."-Alan Trachtenberg! Neil Grey Emeritus Professor of English! Yale University Zusammenfassung Includes articles, which provide a window onto the New York art scene just as it was casting off provincialism in favor of a more international outlook. Inhaltsverzeichnis 97388222

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• Authors: Lewis Mumford, Robert Mumford, Robert/ Wojtowicz Mumford, Mumford Robert, Mumford/Wojtowicz
• Assisted by: Robert Mumford (Editor), Robert Wojtowicz (Editor), Wojtowicz Robert (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.12.2008
• EAN: 9780520258082
• ISBN: 978-0-520-25808-2
• No. of pages: 277
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 235 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; ART / History / General, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, History of Art, History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -