ePub Drawing for the Absolute Beginner; Techniques by Mark Willenbrink in Arts-Photography

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The years before World War I were a fertile period for artists in Europe and the United States who were challenging aesthetic convention in music; writing; and the visual arts. These early pioneers of modernism sometimes preferred to work alone; but just as often they were associated with groups whose boundaries were permeable and freely changing. While these individual groups_including the Futurists; Imagists; Blue Rider; and the Second Vienna School_have been thoroughly studied; scholars of the period have often neglected the formative and pervasive interactions of these groups across geographic and artistic boundaries. Providing a historical taxonomy of this influential milieu; Milton Cohen demonstrates how these groups were largely responsible for the artistic innovation and nearly all the avant-garde agitation and major events of these years. With concluding appendices intended for scholars and specialists; this engagingly written book will be useful not only for classroom use and scholarly research; but will appeal to anyone interested in reading a fresh approach to the history of early modernism.