{"product_id":"premodernism-artworld-change-and-american-culture-from-the-civil-war-to-the-armory-show-9780691118130","title":"PreModernism  ArtWorld Change and American","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eProposes 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWinner 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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: 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","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403732394327,"sku":"9780691118130","price":73.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/premodernism-artworld-change-and-american-culture-from-the-civil-war-to-the-armory-show-9780691118130","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}