Fragmentary modernism: the classical fragment in literary and visual cultures, c.1896-c.1936

Preview   A photograph of Jacob Epstein’s sculpture Marble Arms (1923) appears on the front cover of Nora Goldschmidt’s Fragmentary Modernism. Since the Renaissance, art historians and theorists have been fascinated by how an artwork relates to the artist’s mental intention: what is the relationship between the disegno in the artist’s mind and the painting … Continue reading Fragmentary modernism: the classical fragment in literary and visual cultures, c.1896-c.1936