Antimodernism and Artistic Experience : Policing the Boundaries of Modernity.

Cover -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- FOREWORD -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- Antimodernism and Artistic Experience: An Introduction -- PART ONE -- 1 Introduction: Around and About Modernity: Some Comments on Themes of Primitivism and Modernism -- 2 Performing the Native Woman: Primitivism and Mimicry in Early Twentieth-Century Visual Culture -- 3 The Colonial Lens: Gauguin, Primitivism, and Photography in the Fin de siècle -- 4 Emily Carr and the Traffic in Native Images -- PART TWO -- 5 Introduction: Staging Antimodernism in the Age of High Capitalist Nationalism -- 6 Modernists and Folk on the Lower St Lawrence: The Problem of Folk Art -- 7 Handicrafts and the Logic of 'Commercial Antimodernism': The Nova Scotia Case -- 8 Bushwhackers in the Gallery: Antimodernism and the Group of Seven -- PART THREE -- 9 Introduction: Modernity, Nostalgia, and the Standardization of Time -- 10 Artisans and Art Nouveau in Fin-de-siècle Belgium: Primitivism and Nostalgia -- 11 Van Gogh in the South: Antimodernism and Exoticism in the Arlesian Paintings -- 12 Plays without People: Shadows and Puppets of Modernity in Fin-de-siecle Paris -- 13 Primitivism in Sweden: Dormant Desire or Fictional Identity? -- Selected Bibliography -- Contributors -- Illustrations.

Scholars in art history, anthropology, history, and feminist media studies explore Western antimodernism of the turn of the 20th century as an artistic response to a perceived loss of 'authentic' experience.

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