England v Europe At the tail end of the summer of 2016, in a village about forty minutes’ drive from Dijon, I sat on the stone patio of a small farmhouse with a faded copy of Gabriel Josipovici's The Lessons of Modernism in hand. The intense
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Refiguring Modernism in European Comics
'New Seeing' in the Works of Lorenzo Mattotti and Nicolas de Crécy
Barbara Uhlig
Both in literature and art, exponents of modernism sought new forms of expression that took into account changes in the social, economic, technical and political conditions of the time. A similar trend towards questioning outmoded forms of representation and establishing new ways of seeing has become apparent in European comics since the 1980s, a development that was initiated primarily in Italy and France. In Murmure (1989), Lorenzo Mattotti invokes expressionism and centres his mystical tale on the individual's inner being. In rejecting the representational norms traditionally applied to comics, Nicolas de Crécy also shows his allegiance to modernism yet reflects in his absurdly hyperrealist work, Foligatto (1991), the grotesque images of Otto Dix. The following article demonstrates how the two artists, despite the deliberate reversion to early twentieth-century art common to both, have, each in his own way, established a new approach to seeing in comics.
In European Comic Art
- Published (Print):
- 01 Mar 2015
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 87–110 (24 total)
Mindfulness and Hasidic Modernism
Toward a Contemplative Ethnography
Don Seeman and Michael Karlin
have begun to make explicit use of mindfulness terminology in their promotion of what they take to be traditional Chabad Hasidic teachings. Our approach is indebted to the extensive critical literature on ‘Buddhist modernism’ ( Garfield 2015
In Religion and Society
- Published (Print):
- 01 Sep 2019
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 44–62 (19 total)
Putting the Culture into Bioculturalism
A Naturalized Aesthetics and the Challenge of Modernism
Dominic Topp
Alfred Hitchcock and Otto Preminger with the Soviet montage films of Sergei Eisenstein and Alexander Dovzhenko and the modernism of Robert Bresson, Luis Buñuel, and Raúl Ruiz, and this “comparative approach” ( Smith 2017: 9 ) has continued in his
Dan Gunn
Shakespeare rather complexifies the chronology intimated by Gabriel's first book of criticism, The World and the Book , where the Middle Ages seem to talk directly to Modernism, with most that goes between practically getting in the way of that conversation
The Ill-Equipped Modernist
Historicizing Édouard Dujardin’s Les Lauriers Sont Coupés
Kelly J. Maynard
in its own right, analyzing its interiority as an innovative product of overlapping aesthetic milieus symptomatic of the French fin de siècle, including symbolism, Wagnerism, modernism, and subjectivism. 2 In this article, I explore Les Lauriers
In Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques
- Published (Print):
- 01 Dec 2017
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 42–62 (21 total)
Hubert I. Cohen
Review of András Bálint Kovács, SCREENING MODERNISM: EUROPEAN ART CINEMA, 1950–1980
Traveling to Modernism's Other Worlds
Huxley's Brave New World and Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four
Alexandra Peat
This article discusses two popular late modernist works, Aldous Huxley's Brave New World and George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four. It argues that the formal and thematic complexity of both works has been overlooked because of an understandable, but ultimately rather myopic fixation on their gripping ideas and frightening political messages, and puts them back in the context of modernism, seeing them as part of a body of late modernist works engaged in questions of travel and transnational encounter. The article situates Huxley and Orwell's novels in the socio-cultural context of the 1930s and 1940s, figuring the dystopian impulse as a reaction to a time of global upheaval and uncertainty. By understanding these novels as examples of travel fiction, we become more attuned to the kinds of complex ethical questions they ask regarding how to view both other worlds and other people.
Culture Trumps Scientific Fact
‘Race’ in US American Language
Augustine Agwuele
Africa as the panacea for all things. Formal education, it was said, produces literacy: it heralds modernism, that is, the idea of progress ( Habermas 1984 ), and brings enlightenment and freedom from anachronistic habits in thought and practices ( Wiredu
In Social Analysis
- Published (Print):
- 01 Jun 2016
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 97–115 (19 total)
Karsavina, Mallarmé, and Mauclair
A Literary pas de trois in Early Twentieth-Century Dance Criticism
Sasha Rasmussen
. In positing a form of dance that prioritized intellectual engagement by both the dancer and the audience, Mauclair, Canudo, and Saint-Point presented a cohesive alternative to what Harold Segel has dubbed the “physical imperative” of early modernism
In Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques
- Published (Print):
- 01 Mar 2023
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 103–125 (23 total)