Ephemeral Bibelots - How an International Fad Buried American Modernism

Bringing nineteenth-century American literature and culture into conversation with modern art movements from around the world, Ephemeral Bibelots provides new ways of thinking about the centrality of various media cultures to the attribution of aesthetic innovation and its staying power.

Info autore

Brad Evans is an associate professor of English at Rutgers University. He is the author of Before Cultures: The Ethnographic Imagination in American Literature, 1865–1920, and the coeditor of Return to the Land of the Head Hunters: Edward S. Curtis, the Kwakwaka'wakw, and the Making of Modern Cinema.

Riassunto

Bringing nineteenth-century American literature and culture into conversation with modern art movements from around the world, Ephemeral Bibelots provides new ways of thinking about the centrality of various media cultures to the attribution of aesthetic innovation and its staying power.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Brad Evans, Brad (Rutgers - The State University of New Evans, Brad (Rutgers - The State University of New Jersey) Evans
• Editore: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 30.09.2019
• EAN: 9781421432694
• ISBN: 978-1-4214-3269-4
• Pagine: 264
• Serie: Hopkins Studies in Modernism
• Categorie: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura / linguistica inglese; Viaggi > Guide turistiche; LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Literature: history & criticism, Literary theory, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literature: history and criticism