Modernist Fraud: Hoax, Parody, Deception

by Leonard Diepeveen

Focusing on literature and visual art in the years 1910-1935, Modernist Fraud begins with the omnipresent accusations that modernism was not art at all, but rather an effort to pass off patently absurd works as great art. These assertions, common in the time's journalism, are used to understand the aesthetic and context which spawned them, and to look at what followed in their wake. Fraud discourse ventured into the aesthetic theory of the time, to...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198825439
• ISBN13: 9780198825432
• Release Date: May 2019
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 222 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.3"