Mock Modernism

Mock Modernism
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Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Total Pages : 442
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ISBN-10 : 9781442644823
ISBN-13 : 1442644826
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Book Synopsis Mock Modernism by : Leonard Diepeveen

Download or read book Mock Modernism written by Leonard Diepeveen and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How was the modernist movement understood by the general public when it was first emerging? This question can be addressed by looking at how modernist literature and art were interpreted by journalists in daily newspapers, mainstream magazines likePunch and Vanity Fair, and literary magazines. In the earliest decades of the movement – before modernist artists were considered important, and before modernism's meaning was clearly understood – many of these interpretations took the form of parodies. Mock Modernism is an anthology of these amusing pieces, the overwhelming majority of which have not been in print since the first decades of the twentieth century. They include Max Beerbohm's send-up of Henry James; J.C. Squire's account of how a poet, writing deliberately incomprehensible poetry as a hoax, became the poet laureate of the British Bolshevist Revolution; and theChicago Record-Herald's account of some art students' “trial” of Henri Matisse for “crimes against anatomy.” An introduction and headnotes by Leonard Diepeveen highlight the usefulness of these pieces for comprehending media and public perceptions of a form of art that would later develop an almost unassailable power.


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