Ways Around Modernism (Theories of Modernism and Postmodernism in the Visual Arts)

In the second volume of Theories of Modernism and Postmodernism in the Visual Arts Stephen Bann examines the arguments for the centrality of French modernist painting. Bann begins by focusing particularly on the notion of the modernist break, as it has been interpreted with regard to painters like Manet and Ingres. He argues that '¬~curiosity', with its origins in the seventeenth-century world-view, can be a valid concept for understanding some aspects of contemporary art that contest the modern, suggesting ways of sidetracking the modern by adopting a lengthier historical view.Stephen Bann is the author of 'Ways Around Modernism (Theories of Modernism and Postmodernism in the Visual Arts)', published 2006 under ISBN 9780415974219 and ISBN 0415974216.