Making it Modern : Essays on the Art of the Now (Hardcover)

How Linda Nochlin Made it Modern by Aruna D’Souza

Revolutions in Art/History
1848: The Revolution in Art History
Meyer Schapiro’s Modernism
Courbet, David, and the Imaginative Afterlife of the French Revolution

Bodies of Modernity
Pissarro, Cezanne, and the Eternal Feminine
Renoir’s Men: Constructing the Myth of the Natural
Body Politics: Seurat’s Poseuses
Camille Corot: The Nude without Qualities

Abstracting the Body
Bonnard’s Bathers
The World According to Gober
“Sex is so Abstract”: The Nudes of Andy Warhol

Othering Art History
Sex and the “Sepoy Mutiny”: The Intersections of Race and Gender in the Colonial Imaginary
Learning from Black Male
The Imaginary Orient

Abstraction and Realism
Kelly: Making Abstraction Anew The Realist Criminal and the Abstract Law
The New Realists
Picasso’s Color: Schemes and Gambits

Museums and Vision
Museums and Radicals: A History of Emergencies
The Museum as Bildungsroman: My Life in Art, Trash, and Fashion
Matisse and its Other
The Naked and the Dread: Reviewing the Modern Nude

Genre and Form
Impressionist Portraits and the Construction of Modern Identity
Francis Bacon and the Fear of Narrative
Academic Art and the Death of Narrative
Camille Pissarro: The Unassuming Eye
Death and Gender in Manet’s Still Lifes

Art as / and Work
The Paterson Strike Pageant of 1913
Van Gogh, Renouard, and the Weaver’s Crisis in Lyons
Seurat’s Grande Jatte: An Anti-Utopian Allegory
The Cribleuses de ble: Courbet, Millet, Breton, Kollwitz, and the Image of the Working Woman