Machine Modernism, Masculinity, and the Trauma of War by Maureen G. Shanahan
Pennsylvania State University Press
Long considered the embodiment of national resilience and fraternal loyalty in the wake of World War I, Fernand L\u00E9ger\u2019s art overshadows a far less heroic story, one that prompts a demythification of his legendary identification with the working class and provokes important questions about psychic trauma. This book draws on L\u00E9ger\u2019s wartime letters to reassess his work and present an entirely new perspective on how the artist\u2019s war experience informed his art.\nMaureen G. Shanahan traces the legacy of war and historical trauma in L\u00E9ger\u2019s work and uses the crisis of masculinity generated by World War I to explain the contradictions and paradoxes of his art and writing during and after the war. Drawing upon psychoanalytic and gender theory as well as memory studies, Shanahan historicizes the\n\nMachine Modernism, Masculinity, and the Trauma of War\nThe Art of Fernand Leger\nFree UK delivery on this item.\n\nThis brand new item is available with free UK ;
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