Visions of the human : art, World War I, and the modernist subject /

In what ways do the artistic avant-garde's representations of the human body reflect the catastrophe of World War I? The European modernists were inspired by developments in the nineteenth-century, yielding new forms of knowledge about the nature of reality and repositioning the human body as t...

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Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	Slevin, Tom (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	London : I.B. Tauris & Company Ltd., 2015.
Series:	International library of modern and contemporary art ; 22.
Subjects:	Human figure in art. Art, European > 20th century. Modernism (Art) > Europe. World War, 1914-1918 > In art.