Moving Modernism Test Bank, Andrew Nell 20th Century Art

Unlock the Secrets of Modern Dance and Cinema

The emergence of modern dance and the early history of cinema ran concurrent with the European avant-garde’s development of pictorial abstraction in the first decades of the 20th century.

Challenging Assumptions

Author Nell Andrew challenges the assumption that modernist abstraction resulted from a century of natural, autonomous evolution to painting styles and tastes.

Performative Modes of Art

By examining dance and film created during this period, Andrew argues that performative modes of art created the link between bodily movement and movement depicted in modernist paintings.

Archival Research

With archival material collected in North America and Europe, Moving Modernism resurfaces lost performances, identifies working methods, and establishes the circles of aesthetic influence and reception for avant-garde dance pioneers and experimental film makers from the turn of the century to the interwar period.

Temporal and Sensorial Experience

Reexamining the motivation that fueled the emergence of abstraction, Andrew claims that painters sought meaning not only in the material and formal picture but also in temporal and sensorial experience.