Books in the Refiguring Modernism series

Revisits the theme of alienation in modernist literature, finding an alternative aesthetic centered on the experience of double exile. Explores examples drawn from the cultural groupings of the New Negro movement, Parisian expatriates in the 1920s, and the queer expatriate scene in Los Angeles before Stonewall.

A collection of essays on the work of Djuna Barnes, including her early journalism, poetry, prose, visual art, and drama.

A collection of essays on the work of Djuna Barnes, including her early journalism, poetry, prose, visual art, and drama.

Examines art and literature of the Americas through the lens of the questionnaire, a genre as central as the manifesto to the history of the avant-garde. Demonstrates how modernism and the avant-garde were debated at the very moment of their development and consolidation.

Argues that Viennese Jewish modernism is explicable as an aesthetic reconfiguration of Jewish tradition in response to multifaceted crises of memory, identity and language. Examines the works of Hugo von Hofmannsthal (1874-1929), Arthur Schnitzler (1862-1931), Richard Beer-Hofmann (1866-1945) and Sigmund Freud (1856-1939).

Joan Miro (1893-1983) is one of the leading artists of the early twentieth century, to be ranked alongside such artists as Picasso, Matisse, Mondrian, and Pollock in his contributions to Modernist painting. This book advances an understanding of Miro's enterprise in 1920s and of the important works of his career.

Explores an international network of artists, artist groups, and critics linked by their aesthetic and theoretical responses to science, science fiction, and new media. Focuses on the Italian Spatial Artist Lucio Fontana and French Painter of Space Yves Klein.

Examines postcards as images that are carriers of text, and textual correspondence that circulate images across boundaries of class, gender, nationality and race. Discusses issues concerning the concrete practices of production, consumption, collection and appropriation.

Examines how Russian Constructivist artists in the 1920s imagined a new physical environment through the creation of recycled and reappropriated objects.

Examines U.S. obscenity trials in the early twentieth century and how they framed a wide-ranging debate about the printed word's power to deprave, offend, and shape behavior.

Examines the influence of experimental science, concerned with the workings of the body, the mind, and their various pathologies, on the works of late nineteenth-century artists Maurice Denis, Edouard Vuillard, August Strindberg, and Edvard Munch.

A series of studies examining literary modernism in Ireland. Explores how cultural work assumed new meaning amid the strategic imperatives of the mid-twentieth century, and demonstrates how the late modernist field became today's information age.

Examines the literary and visual works of the Spanish vanguardists, which engaged with and incorporated the mass-produced commodities of the Machine Age and anticipated the modern fields of material culture, technology studies, and network theory.

Examines the wide-ranging influence of games and play on the development of modern art in the twentieth century.

Explores the career of Hungarian-born French painter Simon Hantai (1922-2008) from his earliest paintings and writings in France in the 1950s through his final abstractions of the 2000s.

Recounts the history of the Netherlands Carillon, given to the United States in the 1950s by the Dutch government, and explores its paradoxical placement in the American memorial landscape.

Explores the rise of formalism in the visual arts. Employs an expanded sense of form to rethink a range of areas, including the history of writing about art, constructions of high and low culture, and the idea of global modernism.