Painting and Painters, 1920–1960

The modern period in southern painting can be said to begin in the early 1920s with the activities of the Fugitive group at Vanderbilt University in Nashville. Although the Fugitives were essentially a literary group, they were also concerned with theories of artistic expression in general, especial...

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Published inThe New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture Vol. 21; p. 130
Main Author RICK STEWART
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published United States The University of North Carolina Press 14.01.2013
University of North Carolina Press
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Abstract art
African art
African culture
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Summary:The modern period in southern painting can be said to begin in the early 1920s with the activities of the Fugitive group at Vanderbilt University in Nashville. Although the Fugitives were essentially a literary group, they were also concerned with theories of artistic expression in general, especially with regard to the South. Their importance lies in their cosmopolitan attitude toward creative expression. The four major figures in the movement were Donald Davidson, John Crowe Ransom, Allen Tate, and Robert Penn Warren. Although respecting the new modernism that spanned national boundaries, they regretted that southern culture, as they had known it,
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