Modernism's Masculine Subjects: Matisse, the New York School, and Post-Painterly Abstraction by Marcia Brennan - 2004-12-07

The MIT Press, 2004-12-07. hardcover. Good. 7x0x9.

The MIT Press, 12/7/2004. Hardcover. Very Good. Very Good Condition and Unread! Text is clean and unmarked! Light shelf wear to cover from storage. Has a small black line or red dot on bottom/exterior edge of pages.

MIT Press. Used - Like New. Used book that is in almost brand-new condition.

The MIT Press, 2004. Hardcover. As new, clean, tight & bright condition, with bright and crisp dust jacket. 213pp.

Hardback. Very Good.

Cambridge:: MIT Press,. Near Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2004. Hardcover. 026202571X . Color and black and white illustrations. First printing. INSCRIBED by the author to a previous owner. Light impression from a removed sticker on front free endpaper, else fine in a fine dust jacket. .

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2004. Cloth, xi, 213 pages, illustrations; 24 cm. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Age toning. First Edition. Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. "In the era of The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit--when social pressures on men to conform threatened cherished notions of masculine vitality, freedom, and authenticity--modernist paintings came to be seen as metaphorical embodiments of both idealized and highly conflicted conceptions of masculine selfhood. In Modernism's Masculine Subjects, Marcia Brennan traces the formalist critical discourses in which work by such artists as Henri Matisse, Willem de Kooning, and Jackson Pollock could stand as symbolic representations that at once challenged and reproduced such prevailing cultural conceptions of masculinity. Rejecting the typical view of formalism's exclusive engagement with essentialized and purified notions of abstraction and its disengagement from issues of gender and embodiment, Brennan explores the ways in… Read More

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