Against modernity : the American Academy in the '20s

Author

Ozick, Cynthia

Document type

Article (journal)

Language

English

Source

New criterion. 1994, Num. 1, Vol. 13, 19-36

ISSN

0734-0222

Abstract (en)

Discusses the values promoted by the American Academy of Arts and Letters (New York) in the 1920s, under the domination of Robert Underwood Johnson; describes its role as "upholder of Taste and Beauty in Arts and Letters in America" and its opposition to modernism in the arts; focuses on literature, but mentions the Academy's adherence to the Beaux-Arts tradition and its endorsement of the grand symbolic statuary exemplified by Daniel Chester French; also comments on its publication of attacks on modernism by Cortissoz and other critics after the Armory Show.

Subject (en)

• General history of art -- 1800-1945 -- United States
• American Academy of Arts and Letters||New York (NY, USA)
• Johnson, Robert Underwood, 1853-1937
• Modernism
• United States
• 1900-2000
• Armory Show (1913)||New York (NY, USA)
• Art
• Aesthetics
• Taste (aesthetics)
• French, Daniel Chester, 1850-1931
• Cortissoz, Royal, 1869-1948
• Art critics

Subject (fr)

• Histoire générale de l'art -- 1800-1945 -- États-Unis
• American Academy of Arts and Letters||New York (NY, USA)
• Johnson, Robert Underwood, 1853-1937
• Modernisme
• Etats-Unis
• 1900-2000
• Armory Show (1913)||New York (NY, USA)
• Art
• Esthétique
• Goût (esthétique)
• French, Daniel Chester, 1850-1931
• Cortissoz, Royal, 1869-1948
• Critiques d'art

Origin

DatabaseBHA (Inist-CNRS/GRI)

Identifier19950401-00313149

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