Modern Art and the Remaking of Human Disposition by Emmelyn Butterfield-Rosen

Modern Art and the Remaking of Human Disposition by Emmelyn Butterfield-Rosen

How artists at the turn of the twentieth century broke with traditional ways of posing the bodies of human figures to reflect modern understandings of human consciousness.

"Butterfield-Rosen's strategy of examining the disposition of poses in order to contribute to histories of the self is nothing short of a brilliant, and her discussion of the trafficking between abstract concepts and concrete practices is rigorous, original, and convincingThis is an area in which the discipline of art history is in a privileged position to contribute to a broader history of ideas, and she makes skillful use of the weapons in an art historian's arsenal, including formal and iconographic analysis." --Zeynep Celik Alexander, author of Kinaesthetic Knowing: Aesthetics, Epistemology, Modern Design "Modern Art and the Remaking of Human Disposition is original, creative, erudite, soundly argued, and convincingly substantiated. It constitutes an important intervention in the history of late nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century European art, offering a subtle linkage between aesthetic theory and socio-psychological conceptions of selfhood."--Juliet Bellow, author of Modernism on Stage: The Ballets Russes and the Parisian Avant-Garde

Emmelyn Butterfield-Rosen is the associate director of the Williams College Graduate Program in the History of Art at the Clark Art Institute. She lives in Williamstown, Massachusetts and New York City.

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ISBN 13	9780226745046
ISBN 10	022674504X
Title	Modern Art and the Remaking of Human Disposition
Author	Emmelyn Butterfield-Rosen
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	The University of Chicago Press
Year published	2021-11-09
Number of pages	352
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