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Going on from Picasso? Late modernism and the dynamics of history
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The thesis identifies and interrogates the development of a historical sensibility in the work of artists in post-war New York. It argues that scholars’ marginalisation of this question is behind wider failures to account for the development of modern painting, from the limited debates about painting’s ‘return’ in the 1980s (foundered on the question of identity) up to the present day. I ask why, in the decades following World War II, so many painters appeared to forsake aims of progre...
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- Type of award:
- DPhil
- Level of award:
- Doctoral
- Awarding institution:
- University of Oxford
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English
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2043651
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pubs:2043651
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2022-03-15
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- Copyright holder:
- Nelson, S
- Copyright date:
- 2022
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