| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 88.4

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Book Review

A Modern Mosaic: Art and Modernism in the United States. Ed. by Townsend Ludington, Thomas Fahy, and Sarah P. Reuning. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000. viii, 439 pp. Cloth, $59.95, ISBN 0-8078-2578-6. Paper, $29.95, ISBN 0-8078-4891-3.)

The fourteen essays in this well-balanced anthology contribute to discussions on cultural modernism in the United States from 1890 to the 1960s. They consider most of the primary forms in which modernist practitioners engaged and move between "high" and "low" forms: architecture (Robert Cantwell on the 1893 World's Fair); literature (Jon Michael Spencer on modernism and the Negro renaissance, Thomas Fahy on literary representations of race in the modern American freak show, Lucinda H. MacKethan on female embodiments of southern modernism, Joan Shelley Rubin on public sites for readings and the popularization of modernist poetry); painting (William E. Leuchtenburg on depression art, Lucy Fischer on Edward Hopper and the cinema); sculpture (Casey Nelson Blake on government-sponsored work); music (Carol Oja on George Antheil's Ballet Mécanique); dance (Randy Martin on twentieth-century modern dance, John F. Kasson on dance movement and machine rhythms at work and in film); photography (Maren Stange on Roy DeCarava's modernism, Miles Orvell on John Vachon and the FSA, Farm Security Administration); and film (Ray Carney on idealist and pragmatic cinema aesthetics). Several of the essays study relationships between media, and there is a strong emphasis on visual culture. . . .

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