Easels of Utopia: Art's Fact Returned

by John Baldacchino

Originally published in 1998, Easels of Utopia presents a discussion of art's duration and contingency within the avant garde's aesthetic parameters, which throughout this century have constructed, influenced, and informed our definitions of modernity. In this context the book reads Umberto Boccioni's Futurism as reminiscent of Thomist realism; proposes Caravaggism's historical relevance to the election of individuality in post-war realism;...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138616230
• ISBN13: 9781138616233
• Release Date: March 2021
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 182 Pages
• Weight: 0.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"