A Modern Mosaic
Subtitle: Art and Modernism in the United States
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: November 29, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 472
ISBN-13: 9780807848913
Subjects: History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -; History of ideas, intellectual history; Literary studies: general; Theory of art; United States - 20th Century; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Essays; American English; Literary Criticism; USA; Modernism (Art); American - General; American Modernism; concepts; characteristics; literature; painting; sculpture; music; architecture; dance; film; late nineteenth century; present day; interdisciplinary; modernist movement; John Vachon; Farm Security Administration; 1936 to 1943; midwestern states; documentary project; Roy Stryker; government propaganda; cinematic modernism; William James; John Dewey; pragmatist writers; Ray Carney; aesthetics; Art / History / American; Arts, American; History; 20th century; Popular culture; United States
First sentence: There was much engineering but little "architecture," at the White City of 1893-not, at least, unless structures made to dissolve, to be dismantled, sold, and carried away in pieces can be counted as architecture.