Modernism Harvard Referencing

1. ‘Virtually every history of modern art is dominated by the artistic production of the French capital, Paris. Hence, modern art is in a sense modern French Art’

Brettell, R.R. (1999) ‘Modern Art 1851-1928’, Oxford, Oxford University Press, pp3

2. ‘Modernism was a Western phenomena and, as we will see, traditionally located in two centres: Paris from the mid-nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century and then, New York from the 1950’s onwards’

Meecham, P & Sheldon, J (2005) ‘Modern Art: A Critical Introduction’, 2nd ed. USA, Routledge. pp14-15

3. ‘Part of the problem with defining the 1930’s as a period of stasis or even reaction in French art is that it reflects and reinforces a teleological account of the history of twentieth-century art, in which New York inevitably emerges triumphant as the capital of modern art after 1945’

Barker, E (2004) ‘Varieties of Modernism: Edited by Paul Wood’, London, Yale University Press, pp11

4. ‘Modernism is modern art’s self-consciousness of itself as an autonomous practice’

Bernstein, J.M. (2006) ‘Against Voluptuous Bodies: Late Modernism and the Meaning of Painting’, California, Stanford University Press, pp3

5. ‘Robert Henri urged artists to engage with the vernacular modernity of urban life in the USA, and the term ‘urban vernacular’ may be a useful way of describing the genre dominant in the USA until the Second World War’

Harris, J. (1993) ‘Modernism in Dispute: Art Since the Forties’, Hong Kong, Yale University Press, pp20