Art and form : from Roger Fry to global modernism /

Rose, Sam (Art historian),

Art and form : from Roger Fry to global modernism / Sam Rose. - University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, (c)2019. - 1 online resource (x, 208 pages) : illustrations. - Refiguring modernism ; 28 .

Includes bibliographies and index.

Form and modernist aesthetics on or about 1910 -- The science of art criticism after the 1910s -- Mass civilization and minority visual culture -- Design theory and Marxist art writing : for and against mass culture -- Modernism and form in Africa, Britain, and South Asia.

"Explores the rise of formalism in the visual arts. Employs an expanded sense of form to rethink a range of areas, including the history of writing about art, constructions of high and low culture, and the idea of global modernism"--Provided by publisher.



9780271084282 9780271084305


Formalism (Art)
Art--Philosophy.
Art criticism.


Electronic Books.

N66 / .A783 2019