Modernism and the museum : Asian, African, and Pacific art and the London avant-garde
Arrowsmith, Rupert RichardAuthor
Oxford : Oxford University Press,
2010.
By demonstrating that many of the concepts and styles associated with modernism were actually derived directly from cultures such as Japan, China, Korea, India, Egypt, Assyria, West Africa, and the Pacific Islands, this book provides an entirely new way of looking at the evolution of modernist art and literature in the West.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
By demonstrating that many of the concepts and styles associated with modernism were actually derived directly from cultures such as Japan, China, Korea, India, Egypt, Assyria, West Africa, and the Pacific Islands, this book provides an entirely new way of looking at the evolution of modernist art and literature in the West.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed Dec. 16, 2010).
Modernism (Art)
Modernism (Art)
Modernism (Literature)
Art, Asian
Art, Pacific Island
Museums
Visual Arts
Art, Architecture & Applied Arts
Visual Arts - General