{"product_id":"making-it-modern-9780500293706","title":"Making it Modern","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA selection of key essays by one of the most influential voices in art history, including seven previously unpublished pieces.       This illustrated, edited collection of essays brings together for the first time some of the pioneering art historian Linda Nochlin's most important writings on modernism and modernity from across her six-decade career. Before the publication of her seminal tract on feminism in art, Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?', Nochlin had already firmly established herself as a major practitioner of a politically sophisticated and class-conscious social art history, with her writings on modernism being transformative to the discipline.       Nochlin embraced Charles Baudelaire's conviction that modernity meant to be of one's time - and that the role of an art historian was to understand the art of the past not only in its own historical context, but according to the urgencies of the contemporary world. From academic debates about the nude in the 18th cen\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'An essential collection in the toolkit of all revolutionary thinkers' - The Art Newspaper\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eHow Linda Nochlin Made it Modern\u003c\/i\u003e by Aruna D’Souza\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cb\u003eRevolutions in Art\/History\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  1848: The Revolution in Art History \u003cbr\u003e  Meyer Schapiro’s Modernism \u003cbr\u003e  Courbet, David, and the Imaginative Afterlife of the French Revolution \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cb\u003eBodies of Modernity\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Pissarro, Cézanne, and the Eternal Feminine \u003cbr\u003e  Renoir’s Men: Constructing the Myth of the Natural \u003cbr\u003e  Body Politics: Seurat’s Poseuses \u003cbr\u003e  Camille Corot: The Nude without Qualities \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cb\u003eAbstracting the Body\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Bonnard’s Bathers \u003cbr\u003e  The World According to Gober \u003cbr\u003e  “Sex is so Abstract”: The Nudes of Andy Warhol \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cb\u003eOthering Art History\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Sex and the “Sepoy Mutiny”: The Intersections of Race and Gender in the Colonial Imaginary \u003cbr\u003e  Learning from Black Male \u003cbr\u003e  The Imaginary Orient\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eAbstraction and Realism\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   Kelly: Making Abstraction Anew  The Realist Criminal and the Abstract Law \u003cbr\u003e  The New Realists \u003cbr\u003e  Picasso’s Color: Schemes and Gambits \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cb\u003eMuseums and Vision\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Museums and Radicals: A History of Emergencies \u003cbr\u003e  The Museum as Bildungsroman: My Life in Art, Trash, and Fashion \u003cbr\u003e  Matisse and its Other \u003cbr\u003e  The Naked and the Dread: Reviewing the Modern Nude \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cb\u003eGenre and Form\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Impressionist Portraits and the Construction of Modern Identity \u003cbr\u003e  Francis Bacon and the Fear of Narrative \u003cbr\u003e  Academic Art and the Death of Narrative \u003cbr\u003e  Camille Pissarro: The Unassuming Eye \u003cbr\u003e  Death and Gender in Manet’s Still Lifes \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cb\u003eArt as \/ and Work\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  The Paterson Strike Pageant of 1913 \u003cbr\u003e  Van Gogh, Renouard, and the Weaver’s Crisis in Lyons \u003cbr\u003e  Seurat’s Grande Jatte: An Anti-Utopian Allegory \u003cbr\u003e  The Cribleuses de blé: Courbet, Millet, Breton, Kollwitz, and the Image of the Working Woman","brand":"Thames \u0026 Hudson Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49402761642327,"sku":"9780500293706","price":28.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780500293706.jpg?v=1730481437","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/making-it-modern-9780500293706","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}