TY - BOOK ID - 28912323 TI - Ways around modernism PY - 2007 SN - 9780415974226 9780415974219 0415974224 0415974216 9780203943564 9781135870614 9781135870560 9781135870607 PB - New York : Routledge, DB - UniCat KW - 7.039 KW - 7.039 Hedendaagse kunststromingen.Post-moderne kunst KW - Hedendaagse kunststromingen.Post-moderne kunst KW - Modernism (Art). KW - Art, Modern KW - Modernism (Art) KW - Art, Modernist KW - Modern art KW - Modernism in art KW - Modernist art KW - Aesthetic movement (Art) KW - Affichistes (Group of artists) KW - Fluxus (Group of artists) KW - Schule der Neuen Prächtigkeit (Group of artists) KW - Zero (Group of artists) KW - Art KW - Painting, French KW - Modernisme (Art) KW - Peinture française UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:28912323 AB - Stephen Bann explores the 'origins' of modernism; he questions the conflation of modernism with twentieth century art. This book examines the arguments for the centrality of French modernist painting. Bann focuses particularly on the notion of the modernist break, as it has been interpreted with regard to painters like Manet and Ingres. He also 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. The term 'curiosity' has often been used to describe practices of collecting and creating objects that are set apart from the hegemonic order of high or academic art. In the nineteenth century 'curiosity' became identified with a new aesthetic close to, if not identical with, that of the 'modern'. Curiosity has resurfaced as a widespread and noteworthy feature of present-day art, connected not only to the creation of objects but also to a discernible shift in museological practice. The artists selected for discussion will include in particular Hubert Duprat, from France, and Gerhard Lang, from Germany. Their orientation with regard to curiosity brings to the surface the broader question of the shared heritage of art and science. ER -