Modern Art and the Remaking of Human Disposition

How artists at the turn of the twentieth century broke with traditional ways of posing the bodies of human figures to reflect modern understandings of human consciousness. With this book, Emmelyn Butterfield-Rosen brings a new formal and conceptual rubric to the study of turn-of-the-century modernis...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Butterfield-Rosen, Emmelyn
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Chicago ; London University of Chicago Press 2021, ©2021
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Collection: DeGruyter MPG Collection - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • 1. Figures of Thought: Poseuses and the Controversy of the Grande Jatte
  • 2. Beethoven's Farewell: The Creative Genius "in the Claws of the Secession"
  • 3. The Mise-en-scène of Dreams: L'Après-midi d'un faune
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Index