Collecting as Modernist Practice

by Jeremy Braddock

Book Overview

Winner of the Modernist Studies Association Book Prize of the Modernist Studies Association

In this highly original study, Jeremy Braddock focuses on collective forms of modernist expression--the art collection, the anthology, and the archive--and their importance in the development of institutional and artistic culture in the United States.

Using extensive archival research, Braddock's study synthetically examines the overlooked practices...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1421403641
• ISBN13: 9781421403649
• Release Date: February 2012
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.9" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher