How Long to Read Avant-garde Gambits, 1888-1893

How Long Does it Take to Read Avant-garde Gambits, 1888-1893?

It takes the average reader 1 hour and 20 minutes to read Avant-garde Gambits, 1888-1893 by Griselda Pollock

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Description

In the late 1880s Gauguin, Van Gogh and Bernard, fledgling members of the subculture we call the avant-garde, abandoned Paris, the capital of modernity, to seek out in rural Brittany, Provence - and later in Tahiti - what Van Gogh called "a purer nature of the countryside". Griselda Pollock challenges art history's usual interpretations of this search in the distant and exotic regions by arguing that these artists were cultural colonizers. They exhibited the modern tourist's attachment to home - modern Paris and its art worlds - while being fascinated by what they imagined was a pre-modern "other". Through a thorough textual and social reading of Gauguin's 1892 painting of his Tahitian wife, Manao Tupapau, the author proposes a new theory about the avant-garde as a series of gambits, a game of reference, deference and difference. This painting refers and defers to Manet's Olympia (1863), a notorious avant-garde image of prostitution in the modern city. Where it was seen to differ was in the color of the nude: critics named it a "brown Olympia". Careful deconstruction of this epithet allows Professor Pollock to explore the ways in which racist discourse structures art and art history, posing questions of cultural, sexual and ethnic difference in order to make us all self-critical, not only in regard to the gender, but also to the color of art history.

How long is Avant-garde Gambits, 1888-1893?

Avant-garde Gambits, 1888-1893 by Griselda Pollock is 80 pages long, and a total of 20,000 words.

This makes it 27% the length of the average book. It also has 24% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Avant-garde Gambits, 1888-1893 Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 1 hour and 49 minutes to read Avant-garde Gambits, 1888-1893 aloud.

What Reading Level is Avant-garde Gambits, 1888-1893?

Avant-garde Gambits, 1888-1893 is suitable for students ages 10 and up.

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