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Book SynopsisProposes that the origins of modernism movement can be traced well into the nineteenth century. This book contends that several cultural developments after the Civil War set the stage for modernism.
Trade ReviewWinner of the 2008 Charles C. Eldredge Prize for Distinguished Scholarship in American Art "Pre-Modernism by J. M. Mancini is ... a beautiful, thoughtfully designed book... It is written by a historian venturing into one of the most hotly contested areas of art history--the origins of modernism. She does so with considerable verve and the result is a fascinating exploration of the American art world in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries."--Ludmilla Jordanova, The Historical Journal
Table of ContentsIntroduction: Interrogating Modernism 7 Chapter 1: Modern Art and Modern Art: From the Christmas Card to the Avant-Garde 17 Chapter 2: Building an American Art World 45 Chapter 3: Professionalism and a New Aesthetic Order 99 Chapter 4: The Armory Show in Critical Perspective 133 Chapter 5: Camera ork : Organizing the Avant-Garde 159 Chapter 6: Continuity and Rupture 181 Postscript: Pre-Modernism and Postmodernism: Reflections on the Tilted Arc Crisis 215 Acknowledgments 222 Abbreviations 223 Notes 223 Selected Bibliography 244 Index 251 Photography Credits 256
