NINETEENTH-CENTURY ART HISTORY is an extensive field of study that intersects with diverse areas of the humanities and social sciences. New research continues to expand our understanding of the era’s modernist ideation and cultural production. The aim of Creating the Modern is to facilitate access to the research by providing an online platform readily available to learners interested in examining the relationships between art, society and culture at the dawn of modernism.
Creating the Modern comprises ten chapters structured around general and specialized topics within an overarching chronology. In addition to addressing the era’s revolutionary aesthetic and stylistic developments, the e-publication engages issues relevant to nineteenth-century art within its socio-political context. Topics such as class and gender, academism and the avant-garde, the reception and consumption of progressive art, the culture of spectatorship, psycho-social illness, Eurocentrism, and religious and racial prejudice encourage a multi-faceted understanding of how the narrative of nineteenth-century art is a narrative intrinsically attached to the problematics, and promise, of emerging modernity.
The source material for Creating the Modern was gathered and collated exclusively from online publications, facilitating access and use and affording students and scholars across disciplines opportunities for further research and knowledge production. Extracts from original sources include texts by art historians, artists, philosophers, critics, and theorists, providing an expanded context of the artistic, literary, scientific, and social conditions that informed modern art. As an Open Education Resource (OER), Creating the Modern permits no-cost re-use, re-purpose, adaptation, and redistribution by others.
- Subject:
- Art History
- Arts and Humanities
- Material Type:
- Textbook
- Provider:
- Concordia University
- Author:
- Karine Antaki
- Loren Lerner
- Date Added:
- 10/25/2024
