New Monumentality, Integration of the Arts, and the Shaping of Modern Life

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dc.contributor.advisorZalman, Sandra
dc.contributor.committeeMemberKoontz, Rex
dc.contributor.committeeMemberTejada, Roberto J.
dc.creatorBassi Cendra, Giovanna María
dc.date.accessioned2016-03-14T03:24:26Z
dc.date.available2016-03-14T03:24:26Z
dc.date.createdDecember 2015
dc.date.issued2015-12
dc.date.updated2016-03-14T03:24:26Z
dc.description.abstractThe American art history canon poses modern art as an individualistic and detached enterprise. However, an examination of the New Monumentality discourse reveals that modern art was as socially and politically engaged as the Federal Art Project murals. Inspired by the success of the Spanish Pavilion at the 1937 Paris World’s Fair, this discourse linked the concept of modern monumentality to the integration of the arts. The New Monumentality had a great impact on the development of modern art because it assigned visual artists a vital role in the construction of monuments. Several avant-garde artists, among them Alexander Calder and Isamu Noguchi, seized the opportunity that the new approach to monumentality afforded them and created art specifically for civic spaces. The New Monumentality enabled them to fight the chronic isolation of their work from society and to fulfill their desire to reach the masses and help shape human life.
dc.description.departmentArt, School of
dc.format.digitalOriginborn digital
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdf
dc.identifier.orcid0000-0002-8999-3058
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10657/1276
dc.language.isoeng
dc.rightsThe author of this work is the copyright owner. UH Libraries and the Texas Digital Library have their permission to store and provide access to this work. Further transmission, reproduction, or presentation of this work is prohibited except with permission of the author(s).
dc.subjectNew Monumentality
dc.subjectIntegration of the Arts
dc.subjectLéger, Fernand
dc.subjectSert, José Luis
dc.subjectGiedion, Sigfried
dc.subjectSpanish Pavilion
dc.subject1937 Paris World's Fair
dc.subjectModern murals
dc.subjectNine Points on Monumentality
dc.subjectModern monument
dc.subjectFederal Art Project
dc.subjectNoguchi, Isamu
dc.subjectCalder, Alexander
dc.titleNew Monumentality, Integration of the Arts, and the Shaping of Modern Life
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dc.type.genreThesis
thesis.degree.collegeCollege of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
thesis.degree.departmentArt, School of
thesis.degree.disciplineArt History
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of Houston
thesis.degree.levelMasters
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Arts

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