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Ancient Dreams in a Modern Land: Barbara Hepworth at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art

Hannah Voss

In 1969, the sculptor Barbara Hepworth wrote to her ex-husband, Ben Nicholson, “so much depends, in sculpture, on what one wants to see through a hole!" What emerges in a sustained encounter with Hepworth’s work is her philosophy that sculpture...

Ezra Pound and the Career of Modern Criticism by Michael Coyle and Roxana Preda

Miranda Hickman

The year is 1949. It’s the moment of the culturally searing Bollingen controversy in the United States, which erupts when the prestigious prize for “the highest achievement of American poetry,” issued by the Library of Congress, is awarded in...

“New Modernisms,” edited by Sean Latham and Gayle Rogers

Matthew Levay

There are a number of books yet to be written that modernist studies desperately needs. Many of us no doubt keep mental lists of the titles we hope to write ourselves, as well as longer lists of those we hope others will complete, preferably...

Aug 14, 2018 By: The Editors

A forum for reviews of exhibitions of interest as well as reviewing handbooks, companions, pedagogical volumes, introductions, etc.