Painting and Painters, 1920–1960

• Published in: The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture Vol. 21; p. 130
• Main Author: RICK STEWART
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: United States The University of North Carolina Press 14.01.2013; University of North Carolina Press
• Subjects: Abstract art; African art; African culture; African studies; Anthropology; Applied arts; Architecture; Art education; Art exhibitions; Art galleries; Art genres and movements; Art history; Art periods; Artists; Arts; Arts participation; Behavioral sciences; Buildings; Commercial buildings; Economic disciplines; Economics; Employment; Ethnography; Ethnology; Labor economics; Modern art; Modernist art; Occupations; Retail stores; Visual arts
• ISBN: 9780807837184; 0807837180

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,