Modernism as Institution
On the Establishment of an Aesthetic and Historiographic Paradigm
Abstract
"Anyone who studies the history of modern art—in art museums, in the classroom, in art historical handbooks or specialist surveys—will soon be aware of a certain recurrent pattern governing the selection of objects and forming a certain type of narrative where the history of modern art is presented as a variety of different -isms that dissolve into each other in the coherent sequence that constitutes the history of modern art as modernism.
But why is this pattern so similar in all different places and contexts? Is it possible to distinguish between the history of modern art and the history of modernism? And if so, when, where and how did modernism become synonymous with art of the modern era?
With a dual perspective—regarding art as well as the discursive perception of art—Modernism as an Institution attempts to answer these questions by studying the frameworks for the institutional establishment, as well as the historiography, of modern art."
Keywords
Social History; Historiography; Art Theory; Modernity; aesthetics; ModernismDOI
10.16993/barISBN
9789176350713; 9789176350690; 9789176350706OCN
1076642756Publisher
Stockholm University PressPublisher website
https://www.stockholmuniversitypress.se/Publication date and place
Stockholm, 2018Series
Stockholm Studies in Culture and Aesthetics, 4Classification
Theory of art
History of art