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Visions of the human : art, World War I and the modernist subject / Tom Slevin.
- Title
- Visions of the human : art, World War I and the modernist subject / Tom Slevin.
- Author
- Slevin, Tom
- Publication
- London : I.B. Tauris, 2015.
- ©2015
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- Description
- xii, 331 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.
- Summary
- In what ways do the artistic avant-garde's representations of the human body reflect the catastrophe of World War I? The European modernists were inspired by developments in the nineteenth-century, yielding new forms of knowledge about the nature of reality and repositioning the human body as the new 'object' of knowledge. New 'visions' of the human subject were created within this transformation. However, modernity's reactionary political climate - for which World War I provided a catalyst - transformed a once liberal ideal between humanity, environment, and technology, into a tool of disciplinary rationalisation. Visions of the Human considers the consequences of this historical moment for the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. It explores the ways in which the 'technologies of the self' that inspired the avant-garde were increasingly instrumentalised by conservative politics, urbanism, consumer capitalism and the society of 'the spectacle'. This is an engaging and powerful study which challenges prior ideas and explores new ways of thinking about modern visual culture.
- Series Statement
- International library of modern and contemporary art ; 22
- Uniform Title
- International library of modern and contemporary art 22.
- Alternative Title
- World War One, and the modernist subject
- World War 1, and the modernist subject
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Art
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-319) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- New visions of the human -- The simultaneous subject -- Rationalised existence -- Modernity's vitruvian bodies -- Conclusion : from n-dimensional imagination to one dimensional man.
- ISBN
- 9781780766317
- 1780766319
- 9781857738912 (canceled/invalid)
- OCLC
- 909250430
- SCSB-10000135
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library