Modernist fraud : hoax, parody, deception / Leonard Diepeveen.

Modernist fraud : hoax, parody, deception / Leonard Diepeveen.

First edition.

9780191874130 (electronic book)

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2019.

English

1 online resource : illustrations.

N6494.M64

709.04

Focusing on literature and visual art in the years 1910-1935, 'Modernist Fraud' begins with the omnipresent accusations that modernism was not art at all, but rather an effort to pass off patently absurd works as great art. These assertions, common in the time's journalism, are used to understand the aesthetic and context which spawned them, and to look at what followed in their wake. Fraud discourse ventured into the aesthetic theory of the time, to ideas of artistic sincerity, formalism, and the intentional fallacy. In doing so, it profoundly shaped the modern canon and its justifying principles.

Focusing on literature and visual art in the years 1910-1935, 'Modernist Fraud' begins with the omnipresent accusations that modernism was not art at all, but rather an effort to pass off patently absurd works as great art. These assertions, common in the time's journalism, are used to understand the aesthetic and context which spawned them, and to look at what followed in their wake. Fraud discourse ventured into the aesthetic theory of the time, to ideas of artistic sincerity, formalism, and the intentional fallacy. In doing so, it profoundly shaped the modern canon and its justifying principles.

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