Books written by Leonard Diepeveen

  • Artworld Prestige: Arguing Cultural Value

    Relyea, Lane 109,122 Rembrandt 142 Renoir, Pierre-Auguste 33, 34,35, 123–124, 127, 129–130, 134, 150, ... 108–109, 110, 152, 154–156, 157, 173, 179n.15 arbitrary 155 motivated 32–33, 34 155 Simplicity 131, 134, 172 204 | INDEX S.

  • Modernist Fraud: Hoax, Parody, Deception

    Hind, C. Lewis. The Post Impressionists. London: Methuen, 1911. “Hit Mud with Brick; Result, Cubist Art.” Chicago Inter-Ocean March 9 1913. Hollywood, Dick [Marquis, Don]. “The Sun Dial: Taking up Music in a Serious Way.

  • Modernist Fraud: Hoax, Parody, Deception

    In turning to these materials, the book reevaluates how modernism interacted with the public and describes how a new aesthetic begins: not as a triumphant explosion that initiates irrevocable changes, but as an uncertain muddling and ...

  • The Difficulties of Modernism

    First published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

  • Mock Modernism: An Anthology of Parodies, Travesties, Frauds, 1910-1935

    “I have shod my geese with glass Greener than young April was, They are making happy hiss With Clothilda's idiot niece: But old kings and barren queens Smile like empty soup tureens, Lest their cabbage hearts should quail When my silver ...

  • Shiny Things: Reflective Surfaces and Their Mixed Meanings

    This is scholarship that challenges stale thought and interacts with philosophical ideas in real time, with a versatility that can often be lacking in traditional academic scholarship.

  • Artworld Prestige: Arguing Cultural Value

    After an initial chapter that develops a theory of prestige and the poignancy of its loss, the book looks at how arguments of prestige function in systems of representation, various media, and art's relationship to affect.

  • Shiny Things: Reflective Surfaces and Their Mixed Meanings

    With accessible writing and a careful application of contemporary theory, this is scholarship that challenges stale thought and will appeal to any progressive thinker looking for new ways to present ideas.

  • The Difficulties of Modernism

    First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. In The Difficulties of Modernism , Leonard Diepeveen examines how difficulty became central to our encounters with modern literature and culture.