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Author:
Shanahan, Maureen G., author.
Title:
Machine modernism, masculinity, and the trauma of war : the art of Fernand Léger / Maureen G Shanahan.
Publisher:
The Pennsylvania State University Press,
Copyright Date:
2024
Description:
xiii, 276 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.
Subject:
Léger, Fernand,--1881-1955--Criticism and interpretation.
Painting, French--20th century.
Modernism (Art)--France.
War in art.
Psychic trauma in art.
Masculinity in art.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages [243]-258) and index.
Contents:
The confrontation with death -- The machine aesthetic and aftermath cultures -- Lost bodies and revived memories -- Deterritorialization and dissociation -- Survival, nostalgia, and melancholy.
Summary:
"Investigates the artwork of Fernand Léger, one of machine modernism's leading figures, as a case study of the aesthetic's origins in World War I, its unstable production of masculinity, and its collapse in the context of surrealism, economic crises, and the revival of war memories"--Provided by publisher.
Series:
Refiguring modernism ; 41
ISBN:
0271096853
9780271096858
OCLC:
(OCoLC)1401051789
LCCN:
2024005986
Locations:
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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