Malarstwo Polskie, Symbolizm i Młoda Polska = Polish Painting, Symbolism and Young Poland
By Irena Kossowska (NHC Fellow, 2009–10)
Modernism
Marsden Hartley: The Biography of an American Artist
By Townsend Ludington (NHC Fellow, 1985–86) The first complete biography of an underrated American modernist painter tells of his lifestyle, his extensive travels, and his relationships with other artists such as Alfred Stieglitz, William Carlos Williams, and Gertrude Stein.
May Sinclair: A Modern Victorian
By Suzanne Raitt (NHC Fellow, 1998–99) May Sinclair (1863-1946) was a bestselling novelist who was one of the first British women to go out to the Belgian front in 1914. May Sinclair: A Modern Victorian draws on newly discovered manuscripts to tell the story of this woman whose emotional isolation bears witness to the great … Continued
Orhan Pamuk, Secularism and Blasphemy: The Politics of the Turkish Novel
By Erdağ Göknar (NHC Fellow, 2007–08; 2022–23) Orhan Pamuk, Secularism and Blasphemy is the first critical study of all of Pamuk’s novels, including the early untranslated work. In 2005 Orhan Pamuk was charged with "insulting Turkishness" under Article 301 of the Turkish penal code. Eighteen months later he was awarded the Nobel Prize. After decades … Continued
Our Conrad: Constituting American Modernity
By Peter Lancelot Mallios (NHC Fellow, 2005–06; 2006–07) Our Conrad is about the American reception of Joseph Conrad and its crucial role in the formation of American modernism. Although Conrad did not visit the country until a year before his death, his fiction served as both foil and mirror to America's conception of itself and its … Continued
A Mind at Peace
Edited by Erdağ Göknar (NHC Fellow, 2007–08; 2022–23) A Mind at Peace, originally published in 1949, is a magnum opus, a Turkish Ulysses and a lyrical homage to Istanbul. With an innate awareness of how dueling cultural mentalities can lead to the distress of divided selves, Tanpinar gauges this moment in history by masterfully portraying its register … Continued
Popular Bohemia: Modernism and Urban Culture in Nineteenth-Century Paris
By Mary Gluck (NHC Fellow, 1998–99) A radical reconceptualization of modernism, this book traces the appearance of the modern artist to the Paris of the 1830s and links the emergence of an enduring modernist aesthetic to the fleeting forms of popular culture. Contrary to conventional views of a private self retreating from history and modernity, Popular … Continued
A Mirror in the Roadway: Literature and the Real World
By Morris Dickstein (NHC Fellow, 1989–90) In a famous passage in The Red and the Black, the French writer Stendhal described the novel as a mirror being carried along a roadway. In the twentieth century this was derided as a naïve notion of realism. Instead, modern writers experimented with creative forms of invention and dislocation. Deconstructive … Continued
Source Materials for the Study of Foreign Modernist Literature
By Kejia Yuan (NHC Fellow, 1981–82)
Antinomies of Art and Culture: Modernity, Postmodernity, Contemporaneity
Edited by Terry Smith (NHC Fellow, 2007–08), Okwui Enwezor, and Nancy Condee In this landmark collection, world-renowned theorists, artists, critics, and curators explore new ways of conceiving the present and understanding art and culture in relation to it. They revisit from fresh perspectives key issues regarding modernity and postmodernity, including the relationship between art and … Continued