Early twentieth-century art and art practice in Britain and the United States were, Janet Wolff asserts, marginalized by critics and historians in very similar ways after the rise of post-Cubist modern art. In a masterly book on the sociology of modernism, Wolff explores work that was primarily realist and figurative and investigates the social, institutional, political, and aesthetic processes by which that art fell by the wayside in the postwar period. Throughout, she shows that questions of gender and ethnicity play an important role in critical, curatorial, and historical evaluations. For example, Wolff finds that the work of the artists central to the development of the Whitney Museum was relegated to a secondary status in the postwar period, when realism was labeled "feminine" in contrast to the aggressive masculinity of abstract expressionism.
The three key periods considered in AngloModern are the early twentieth century, when modernist art and existing and new realist traditions coexisted in a certain tension; the postwar period, in which modernism claimed superiority over realism; and the late twentieth century, when a retrieval of the realist and figurative traditions seemed to occur. Wolff concludes by considering this re-emergence, as well as the limitations of earlier discussions of the struggles of realist and figurative art to endure the currents of modernism.
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"AngloModern makes a valuable contribution to the scholarship on modern art, modernism, and identity. Most importantly, Janet Wolff rethinks modernist assumptions, moving in directions that are timely and essential."-Michael Leja, University of Delaware
"The myth that modernism in the arts represented a march toward abstraction has been repeatedly challenged. In Janet Wolff's remarkable new book, however, the ideological strategies by which this myth was created and disseminated are exposed and examined. Wolff demonstrates how masculinist bias and ethnic prejudice have been responsible for our inability to take modernity's realist tradition seriously."- Keith Moxey, Barnard College
Janet Wolff is Professor of Arts at Columbia University. She is the author of several books, including Resident Alien: Feminist Cultural Criticism, Feminine Sentences: Essays on Women and Culture, Aesthetics and the Sociology of Art, and The Social Production of Art.
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