[PDF] Modernism On Sea eBook

Author : Lara Feigel
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 43,64 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781906165246

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"Considers avant-garde art, architecture, film, literature and music, from the early twentieth-century to the present, setting the arrival of modernism against the background of seaside tradition."--Back cover.

Author : Philip Dawson
Publisher : Conway
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,75 MB
Release : 2011-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781844861279

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In 'Vers Une Architecture', published in the mid 1920s, Le Corbusier wrote about the inspiring qualities of the external design forms of Cunard's Aquitania. Since then nautical design inspired a great deal of innovative architecture on terra firma. Simultaneously, the 1925 Exposition des Arts Decoratifs made a broad range of eclectic modern styles fashionable - particularly in the commerical world, whereas Modernism with a capital M, already the design aesthetic of the pre-Stalinist Soviet Union, was associated with social reform, internationalism and a Marxist ideology. In passenger ship design, however, the picture was complicated by a variety of factors. According to Orwell, ships were seen to represent utopian visions of future paradises - and so represented the ideals of Modernism perhaps more effectively than any structure on dry land ever could. On the other hand they were equally powerful statements of imperialism and of commercial pride. This book will examine the development of the Modern Movement in passenger ship architecture in the twentieth century, ranging from small excursion vessels to liners, cruise ships, ferries, and, where necessary, freight vessels.

Author : Chinghsin Wu
Publisher : University of California Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 14,47 MB
Release : 2019-11-12
Category : Art
ISBN : 0520299825

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This significant historical study recasts modern art in Japan as a “parallel modernism” that was visually similar to Euroamerican modernism, but developed according to its own internal logic. Using the art and thought of prominent Japanese modern artist Koga Harue (1895–1933) as a lens to understand this process, Chinghsin Wu explores how watercolor, cubism, expressionism, and surrealism emerged and developed in Japan in ways that paralleled similar trends in the west, but also rejected and diverged from them. In this first English-language book on Koga Harue, Wu provides close readings of virtually all of the artist’s major works and provides unprecedented access to the critical writing about modernism in Japan during the 1920s and 1930s through primary source documentation, including translations of period art criticism, artist statements, letters, and journals.

Author : M. Larabee
Publisher : Springer
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 20,75 MB
Release : 2011-04-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0230118259

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This book shows how British authors used landscape description to shape the meaning of the First World War. Using a broad range of critically neglected archival materials, it reexamines modernist and traditional writing to reveal how various modes of topographical representation allowed authors to construct healing responses to the war.

Author : Cesare Casarino
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 40,5 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780816639274

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At once a literary-philosophical meditation on the question of modernity and a manifesto for a new form of literary criticism, Modernity at Sea argues that the nineteenth-century sea narrative played a crucial role in the emergence of a theory of modernity as permanent crisis. In a series of close readings of such works as Herman Melville's White-Jacket and Moby Dick, Joseph Conrad's The Nigger of the "Narcissus" and The Secret Sharer, and Karl Marx's Grundrisse, Cesare Casarino draws upon the thought of twentieth-century figures including Giorgio Agamben, Louis Althusser, Walter Benjamin, Leo Bersani, Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, and Antonio Negri to characterize the nineteenth-century ship narrative as the epitome of Michel Foucault's 'heterotopia'-a special type of space that simultaneously represents, inverts, and contests all other spaces in culture. Elaborating Foucault's claim that the ship has been the heterotopia par excellence of Western civilization since the Renaissance, Casarino goes on to argue that the nineteenth-century sea narrative froze the world of the ship just before its disappearance-thereby capturing at once its apogee and its end, and producing the ship as the matrix of modernity.

Author : Elizabeth Jane Harrison
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 20,2 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780870499852

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Arguing for a radical re-evaluation of the modernist aesthetic, the essayists consider how women writers created their own version of modernism through the use of sentimental and domestic subject matter, by writing about maternal concerns, and through experiments with plot, voice, and points of view.

Author : Michael Levenson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 27,16 MB
Release : 2011-09-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 1107010632

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Including chapters on the major literary genres, intellectual, political and institutional contexts, film and the visual arts, this text provides both close analyses of individual works of modernism and a broader set of interpretive narratives.