Of Modernism brings together twelve original essays by leading scholars in modernist art history, offering new perspectives on key questions in European modernism. From major themes such as theatre imagery in the art of the First World War, modern art and theosophy, modernism and the bullfight, or the modernist grid and the figure of the_tangle, to specific case studies on Seurat’s reception, the archaeology of the_Demoiselles d’Avignon, cubism and crystallography, or Picasso’s poetry, these richly illustrated texts present a fascinating cross-section of current research in modernist art history, at the cutting edge of contemporary scholarship.

The distinuished contributors, who number among themselves both museum curators and academic art historians, include Fay Brauer (University of East London), Grace Brockington (University of Bristol), Penelope Curtis (Museu Calouste Gulbenkian), Linda Goddard (University of St Andrews), Nancy Ireson (Tate), William Jeffett (Dali Museum), Silvia Loreti (University of Manchester), David Lomas (UCL), C.F.B Miller (Courtauld Institute of Art), Lara Pucci (University of Nottingham), Gavin Parkinson (University of Oxford), and Sarah Victoria Turner (Paul Mellon Centre).