{"product_id":"machine-modernism-masculinity-and-the-trauma-of-war-the-art-of-fernand-leger-hardcover","title":"Machine Modernism, Masculinity, and the Trauma of War: The Art of Fernand Léger - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMaureen G. Shanahan\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLong considered the embodiment of national resilience and fraternal loyalty in the wake of World War I, Fernand Léger's 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 Léger's wartime letters to reassess his work and present an entirely new perspective on how the artist's war experience informed his art.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMaureen G. Shanahan traces the legacy of war and historical trauma in Léger's 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 work of Léger and the Purist art movement within the psychiatric discourse of the era and anxieties about neurasthenia, which was associated with German Expressionism, Dada, and New Objectivity artists. Notably, Shanahan dismantles Léger's machine aesthetic as a utopian and regenerative investment and explores the significance of Léger's collectives of soldiers, female nudes, mass-produced objects, divers, and cyclists--his \"machine men\"--as vehicles for displacing trauma and disavowing loss.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInformed by extensive archival research, this volume turns Léger into a case study of Cubism's most radical moment, machine modernism's relationship to war trauma, and aesthetic positions between Socialist Realism and geometric abstraction.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eMaureen G. Shanahan\u003c\/strong\u003e is Professor of Art History at James Madison University. She has published some twenty articles on gender, trauma, Léger, and other modernist themes. She is coeditor of \u003ci\u003eSimón Bolívar: Travels and Transformations of a Cultural Icon\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n        \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 292\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 9.1 x 7.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 28, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47460345741490,"sku":"9780271096858","price":188.91,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/e5bd94e5789017633e6464ffeeaf11db_fc8dd8c5-531a-43f6-b5a1-03c8deb94b3a.webp?v=1778917943","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/machine-modernism-masculinity-and-the-trauma-of-war-the-art-of-fernand-leger-hardcover","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}