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Modernism and Still Life

Artists, Writers, Dancers

Häftad, Engelska, 2021

AvClaudia Tobin,University of Cambridge) Tobin, Claudia (Leverhulme Early Career Fellow

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The late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries have been characterised as the 'age of speed' but they also witnessed a reanimation of still life across different art forms. This book takes an original approach to still life in modern literature and the visual arts by examining the potential for movement and transformation in the idea of stillness and the ordinary. It ranges widely in its material, taking Cezanne and literary responses to his still life painting as its point of departure. It investigates constellations of writers, visual artists and dancers including D. H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, David Jones, Winifred Nicholson, Wallace Stevens, and lesser-known figures including Charles Mauron and Margaret Morris. Claudia Tobin reveals that at the heart of modern art were forms of stillness that were intimately bound up with movement: the still life emerges charged with animation, vibration and rhythm. It is an unstable medium, unexpectedly vital and well suited to the expression of modern concerns.

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Utgivningsdatum2021-12-14
Mått156 x 234 x 19 mm
Vikt474 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieEdinburgh Critical Studies in Modernist Culture
Antal sidor256
FörlagEdinburgh University Press
ISBN9781474455145

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Dr Claudia Tobin is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in English at the University of Cambridge. She has held fellowships at the Paul Mellon Centre for British Art and the Huntington Library, California. She has published commissioned articles, scholarly book chapters, and exhibition catalogues on interdisciplinary topics including Virginia Woolf and still life, modernism and colour, and on Vanessa Bell's abstract painting as part of Tate's 'In Focus' series. She is General Editor, with Julian Bell, of Ways of Drawing, Thames & Hudson (2019).

Introduction: ‘Nothing is statically at rest’: Cézanne and modern still life1. ‘Quivering yet still’: Virginia Woolf, Roger Fry, and the aesthetics of attention 2. Still Life in Motion3. ‘Past the gap where we cannot see’: Still life and the ‘numinous’ in British painting of the 1920s-30s4. Wallace Stevens, Charles Mauron and ‘inactive contemplation’Conclusion: ‘On the very brink of utterance’: Aldous Huxley, Mark Gertler, and Transfigured ThingsIndex

Modernism and Still Life reminds us that Modernism not only introduced new ways of making art but also new ways of looking at art. Tobin is alert to the paradoxes inherent in the title 'still life' but also to the many ways in which stillness and movement enter into conversation in early modernism. This is a work of deft scholarship and considerable originality of thought. It makes a fresh intervention into a major subject and deepens understanding, offering another landmark in the historiography of Modernism.