Mostly Modern: Essays in Art and Architecture

Mostly Modern: Essays in Art and Architecture by MASHECK JOSEPH


ISBN
9781555953928
Published
Binding
Paperback
Pages
220
Dimensions
154 x 231 x 17mm

Renowned art historian/critic of modern art, Joseph Masheck was so encouraged to be a generalist by his mentor, the great architectural historian Rudolf Wittkower that he answers to a specialty of "mostly modern." This book, a compilation of essays by colleagues near and far, has grown out of a symposium organised at Hofstra for his seventieth birthday. Appealing to "mostly modern" taste, they range over five categories: critical thought (Kant, Ruskin, Cézanne); architecture in cultural space (earliest Renaissance in Britain, Le Corbusier, the architectural imagination of Robbe-Grillet); Central and East European modernism (Latvian art, Kirchner, El Lissitzky); post-war modernism (indeterminacy in music and painting, drawing on a Mies van der Rohe wall, later critical legacy of Malevich's Black Square); and style and habitus (male 'bohemianism' in 16th-century Holland, feminist art-student 'hijinks' in turn of the century Edinburgh, and a piece by Masheck on the 1950s modernist topos of 'bad' barbarian copies of classical coins having "abstract" formal conviction). Each essay is prefaced by Masheck, so that the "mostly modern" symposium may continue to invite ongoing debate. AUTHOR: Joseph Masheck, studied art and architectural history under Meyer Schapiro, Rudolf Wittkower, and Dorothea Nyberg, at Columbia. Editor-in-chief of Artforum in the late '70s, he has taught at Barnard, the Visual Studies program at Harvard, and Hofstra; and been a Guggenheim Fellow and a Visiting Fellow at St. Edmunds College, Cambridge University. Aleksandr Naymark, who trained as a historian and field archaeologist at Moscow University and was a curator at the Museum of Oriental Art, Moscow, studied art history and Central Asian Studies at Indiana University, Bloomington, before coming to Hofstra to teach Ancient Near Eastern, Islamic and Central Asian art. 50 colour
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