Modernism and the museum Asian, African, and Pacific art and the London avant-garde

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 a...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Arrowsmith, Rupert Richard 1968-
Resource Type: Electronic Resource
Langue:English
Publié: Oxford Oxford University Press 2011.
Collection:Oxford English monographs
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Accès en ligne:Available for University of the Philippines System via Oxford Scholarship Online. Click here to access
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Résumé: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.
Description matérielle:1 online resource.
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780191595684 (ebook)
Accès:IP-based subscription, access to limited to within on-campus computer network.