Thursday, June 14, 2018 2pm
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The International Modernism(s) Workshop will host a presentation and discussion with Jenny Anger on her upcoming book Four Metaphors of Modernism: Piano, Water, Glass, Home, which addresses the overlooked centrality of these metaphors within Modernism.Jenny Anger is professor of art history at Grinnell College, where she has taught since earning her Ph.D. in the history of art and architecture at Brown University in 1997. Anger’s specialty is twentieth-century European art history and theory. Her first book, Paul Klee and the Decorative in Modern Art (Cambridge University Press, 2004) situates Klee’s art within the problematic of the decorative as it was articulated and contested especially in the early yearsof the twentieth century. Anger’s second book, Four Metaphors of Modernism from Der Sturm to the Société Anonyme, is expected to appear by the end of the year. The book explores recurrent metaphors—piano, water, glass, and home—that shape the realm of possibility of art in the two titular organizations: Herwarth Walden’s Der Sturm in Berlin (1910-32) and Marcel Duchamp and Katherine Dreier’s Société Anonyme in New York (1920-50).
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