Art and Form: From Roger Fry to Global Modernism

by Sam Rose

This important new study reevaluates British art writing and the rise of formalism in the visual arts from 1900 to 1939. Taking Roger Fry as his starting point, Sam Rose rethinks how ideas about form influenced modernist culture and the movement's significance to art history today.

In the context of modernism, formalist critics are often thought to be interested in art rather than life, a stance exemplified in their support for abstract works...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271082399
• ISBN13: 9780271082394
• Release Date: March 2020
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.0" x 9.5"