Artistic Modernism

Especially before the first World War. Especially Futurism. And technology. Attitudes towards the past. And apocalyptic change. And reason. And emotion. And violence. Links to: counter-cultures; contemporary scientific ideas; ideas of decadence, and revolutionary renewal; Romanticism.

Modernist architecture interests me enough to get its own entry.

Jacques Barzun
- Classic, Romantic and Modern
- The Energies of Art
- Of Human Freedom
William R. Everdell, The First Moderns [Review: Only Dissect!]
Igor Golomshtok, Totalitarian Art
O. B. Hardison, Jr., Disappearing through the Skylight [much of which I profoundly disagree with]
Robert Hughes, The Shock of the New
Edmund Wilson, Axel's Castle

Walter L. Adamson, Embattled Avant-Gardes: Modernism's Resistance to Commodity Culture in Europe [Blurb]
Tim Armstrong, Modernism, Technology, and the Body: A Cultural Study
Elazar Barkan and Ronald Bush (eds.), Prehistories of the Future: The Primitivist Project and the Culture of Modernism
John Beardsley, Gardens of Revelation ["Tours and describes 25 visionary environments created by fiercely independent artists over the past century, from the soaring spires of the Watts Tower in L.A. to the junk-and-flower-filled labyrinths of Howard Finster's Paradise Garden in Georgia."]
Daniel Belgrad, The Culture of Spontaneity: Improvisation and the Arts in Postwar America
Jessica Berman, Modernist Fiction, Cosmopolitanism, and the Politics of Community
Butler, Early Modernism
Deborah R. Coen, Vienna in the Age of Uncertainty: Science, Liberalism, and Private Life [Blurb]
Joseph Cornell [very strange American artist; biography by Deborah Solomon, Utopia Parkway]
Hal Foster, Prosthetic Gods
Laura Catherine Frost, Sex Drives: Fantasies of Fascism in Literary Modernism
Cathy Gere, Knossos and the Prophets of Modernism [blurb]
John Gray Hutton, Neo-Impressionism and the Search for Solid Ground: Art, Science, and Anarchism in Fin-de-siecle France
Karen Jacobs, The Eye's Mind: Literary Modernism and Visual Culture
Kern, Culture of Time and Space, 1880-1918
Michael Levenson, A Genealogy of Modernism: A Study of English Literary Doctrine, 1908--1922
J. M. Mancini, Pre-Modernism: Art-World Change and American Culture from the Civil War to the Armory Show [Blurb. Or: On or about December 1910, a generation of talented young artists hit upon a mode of self-presentation which meshed almost perfectly with trends which had been developing in the art world for several decades]
Victor Margolin, The Struggle for Utopia: Rodchenko, Lissitzky, Moholy-Nagy, 1917--1946
Museum of Modern Art [i.e. I don't know the name of the editor], Machine Art
Christine Poggi, In Defiance of Painting: Cubism, Futurism and the Invention of Collage
Precisionism in America
Martin Puchner, Poetry of the Revolution: Marx, Manifestos, and the Avant-Gardes [Blurb, intro]
George Rickey, Constructivism: Origins and Evolution
Vincent Sherry, The Great War and the Language of Modernism
Richard Candida Smith, Utopia and Dissent: Art, Poetry and Politics in California
Michael Tratner, Modernism and Mass Politics: Joyce, Woolf, Eliot, Yeats [On the strength of this]

Notebooks

Artistic Modernism