Journal articleJournal of Avant-Garde Studies · 2025
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Historians in the fields of literature and art history have long recognized the profound impact of the philosopher William James on Pablo Picasso’s close allies Leo and
Gertrude Stein, and some have acknowledged their possible role in conveying James’s phi ...
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Journal articleThe Behavioral and brain sciences · April 2013
Art appreciation often involves contemplation beyond immediate perceptual experience. However, there are challenges to incorporating such processes into a comprehensive theory of art appreciation. Can appreciation be captured in the responses to individual ...
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Journal articleJournal of Modern Periodical Studies · January 1, 2013
In 1913 a cross section of the London- and Paris-based avant-garde signed a public petition protesting the Paris Municipal government's censorship of Jacob Epstein' s Tomb of Oscar Wilde. Published as a broadside in mid-March 1913 by the journal Action d'a ...
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Journal articleEuropean Legacy · December 1, 2011
In this article, I consider the relevance of Bergson's theory of durée for an understanding of sculpture by focusing on the work of three canonical artists in the history of twentieth-century modernism: the French Cubist Raymond Duchamp-Villon, the Italian ...
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Journal articleOxford Art Journal · January 1, 1998
In contrast to recent studies that would separate notions of avant-garde aestheticism from forms of political engagement this article analyses the synthesis of anarchism and modernist aestheticism developed by the Paris-based Action d'art group over the pe ...
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