Book Details
Orange Code:95901
Paperback:651 pages
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1. Contexts for modernism: intellectual currents in East Asia2. Building forwards and backwards in time: architectural modernism in East and Southeast Asia3. Modernism and cinema in East Asia4. Modern dance in East and Southeast Asia5. Modernist literary production in East Asia6. Musical modernism in Asia7. Modern and modernist theatre and drama in East and Southeast Asia8. When was East and Southeast Asia’s modernism in art? Comparisons and intersections9. Tousled temporalities: modernist practices and intellectual–political currents in South Asia10. Beyond the masters: modernism in South Asian architecture11. Modernism and flm in South Asia: an Indian perspective12. Dance in South Asia13. Modernism and its four phases: literature in South Asia14. Modernism in South Asian art music15. Visual arts in South Asia16. Modernization, development studies and modernity in current African debates17. From ‘progress’ to post-colonial relics: modernist architecture and design in Africa18. Defning Afro-modernism: African cinema’s response to modernity19. Modernism and African dance: reinventing traditions20. Modernism in Sub-Saharan African literature21. Music and modernism in Africa22. ‘A range of modernisms’: Sub-Saharan African theatre and the modernist world23. Modernism in Africanist art history: the making of a new discipline24. The experience of aboriginality in the creation of the radically new: modernist intellectual currents in Australasia25. Indigenous conciliations with American modernity: architecture and design in Oceania26. Modernism and flm in Australia and the Pacifc: the Australasian experience27. Imported and homegrown: dancing modernists in Oceania28. Defning nations: modernist literature in Australia and the Pacifc Islands29. Australian musical frst modernism30. Staging modernity in the ‘New Oceania’: modernism in Australian, New Zealand, and Pacifc Islands theatre31. The modern primitive and the Antipodes: the visual arts and Oceania32. ‘A rare moment of crisis’: modernist intellectual currents in Europe33. Modernist architecture and design in Europe34. Envisioning the scene of the modern: modernism and European cinema35. Inventing abstraction? Modernist dance in Europe36. Literature in Europe37. Modernism in European music38. Modernism and European drama/theatre39. Modernist painting in and around Paris: the city as site, subject, and structure, 1880–193940. Modernist intellectual currents in Latin America41. Architectural Latin American modernism: twentieth-century politics, historiography and the academic debate42. Racialized dance modernisms in Lusophone and Spanish-speaking Latin America43. Latin America’s multiple literary modernisms44. Renovation, rupture, and restoration: the modernist musical experience in Latin America45. Modernism’s unfnished stage: theatre in Latin America46. Beyond centre-periphery: modernism in Latin American art47. Accommodating an unexpected guest: the intellectual trends of modernity in the Middle East48. Cinema and modernity in the Middle East: post-colonial newness and realism49. Modernism
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The Modernist World is an accessible yet cutting edge volume which redraws the boundaries and connections among interdisciplinary and transnational modernisms. The 61 new essays address literature, visual arts, theatre, dance, architecture, music, film, and intellectual currents. The book also examines modernist histories and practices around the globe, including East and Southeast Asia, South Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, Australia and Oceania, Europe, Latin America, the Middle East and the Arab World, as well as the United States and Canada. A detailed introduction provides an overview of the scholarly terrain, and highlights different themes and concerns that emerge in the volume.
The Modernist World is essential reading for those new to the subject as well as more advanced scholars in the area – offering clear introductions alongside new and refreshing insights.
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