Breaking Ground: Art Modernisms 1920-1950 reveals exciting new perspectives on the history of modernist art criticism in the United States.
At the same time Elizabeth McCausland articulated the principles of the widely accepted concept of socially engaged art.
Next is the brilliant Jane Heap\'s eccentric wedding of mysticism and modernism.
The first essays examine critics who embraced formalism in the 1920s under the impact of the English theorists Roger Fry and Clive Bell.
Breaking Ground: Art Modernisms 1920-1950 reveals exciting new perspectives on the history of modernist art criticism in the United States