Remarkable Modernisms
Subtitle: Contemporary American Authors on Modern Art
Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
Published: March 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9781558493247
Subjects: History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -; Literary studies: from c 1900 -; General; Criticism; American Literature (General); Art Criticism; Art & Art Instruction; English; Literary Criticism; USA; American - General; History - Modern (Late 19th Century to 1945); 20th century; Art, American; Literary collections
First sentence: In Rereading the New: A Backward Glance at Modernism, Kevin Dettmar argues that modernist studies changed when contemporary scholars realized that "modernism was not just a way of writing, but equally a way of reading" (13): "Surely one component of what we have learned to call Modernism is only a recuperative habit of 'interpreting' texts, whereas the most enduring of those 'Modernist' texts, read in another spirit, in another age, look strikingly postmodern" (15).