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Of Modernism: Essays in Honour of Christopher Green

Edited by Grace Brockington, Edited by C. F. B. Miller

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""The work of an artist is, in its largest sense, inseparable from history thought of in its largest sense."" That is how eminent British art historian Christopher Green described his methodological approach. Art, he argued, needs to be understood as happening in history, not in a vacuum. Â Of ModernismÂ presents original research by ten contemporary scholars of modern art who studied with Green and follow his historical method. The essays on European art rethink some of the crucial artworks, problems, and practitioners of European high modernism, ranging fromÂ Les Demoiselles d'AvignonÂ toÂ Guernica, avant-gardism to internationalism, and Joan MirÃ³ to Ludwig Mies Van der Rohe. Questions about modernism drive the ten essays, explicitly or otherwise, and they come in as many different shapes. The canon presented inÂ Of ModernismÂ is open, situating Picassoâ€”a recurrent focus of the collectionâ€”alongside artists far more obscure, and in the context of a visual culture that is strikingly eclectic and often ephemeral.