Collecting As Modernist Practice.

Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Collections Mediation Modernism -- 1 After Imagisme -- The Lyric Year and the Crisis in Cultural Valuation -- The Anthology as Weapon -- The Others Formation -- Reprisal Anthologies -- 2 The Domestication of Modernism: The Phillips Memorial Gallery in the 1920s -- Pictorial Publicity -- Subconscious Stimulation, a Professional Public Sphere -- Problems in Collecting Pictures -- Akhenaten, Patron of Modernism -- 3 The Barnes Foundation, Institution of the New Psychologies -- Against Dilettantism -- A System for the New Spirit -- Collection and Institution -- The Art of Memory in the Age of the Unconscious -- 4 The New Negro in the Field of Collections -- Sage Homme Noir -- Precursor Anthologies -- Coterie, Movement, Race -- The Heritage of The New Negro -- Downstairs from the Harlem Museum -- 5 Modernism's Archives: Afterlives of the Modernist Collection -- Two Termini -- Two Consecrations -- Two Archives -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

Offering the most systematic review to date of the Barnes Foundation, an intellectual genealogy and analysis of The New Negro anthology, and studies of a wide range of hitherto ignored anthologies and archives, Braddock convincingly shows how artistic and literary collections helped define the modernist movement in the United States.

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