[ePub] Australian Planting Design by Paul Thompson in Arts-Photography

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In this wide-ranging and original account of Modernism; Michael Levenson draws on more than twenty years of research and a career-long fascination with the movement; its participants; and the period during which it thrived. Seeking a more subtle understanding of the relations between the periods texts and contexts; he provides not only an excellent survey but also a significant reassessment of Modernism itself.Spanning many decades; illuminating individual achievements and locating them within the intersecting histories of experiment (Symbolism to Surrealism; Naturalism to Expressionism; Futurism to Dadaism); the book places the transformations of culture alongside the agitations of modernity (war; revolution; feminism; psychoanalysis). In this perspective; Modernism must be understood more broadly than simply in terms of its provocative works; experimental forms; and singular careers. Rather; as Levenson demonstrates; Modernism should be viewed as the emergence of an adversary culture of the New that depended on audiences as well as artists; enemies as well as supporters.