This interdisciplinary book investigates the various ways in which North American and European modern and contemporary artists, authors, and musicians have returned to earlier works of their own, engaging in inventive revivals and transformations of the past in the present. The book is distinctive in its focus on such revisits, as well as in the diversity of art forms under review: in addition to visual art, the book explores fiction, poetry, literary criticism, film, rock music, and philosophy. This scope, together with the time-span covered in the book, from the 1850s to the twenty-first century, allows for a broad view on retrospection and revision. The case studies presented here offer a multifaceted exploration of the widely different goals to which practitioners of the arts have made retrospection and revision functional against the background of cultural, social, political, and personal forces.
Introduction.
Chapter 1. Retrospection and Revision in Modern and
Contemporary Art, Literature, and Music.- Part I. Retrospection and Memory.
Chapter
2. Stepping in the Same River Twice: Péter Forgįcs and the Revisiting
of The Danube Exodus.
Chapter
3. Uwe Timm and the Ghosts of the Past: a
Writers Ethical Impact on the Agenda of Collective Memory.
Chapter
4.
Australia and Morocco Revisited: The Materialized Travel Memories of Dutch
Visual Artist Theo Kuijpers.- Part II. Revision, Politics, and Ideology.
Chapter
5. The Fall and Rise of Exiles Return: Malcolm Cowley and the
Cultural Politics of Revision.
Chapter
6. Revision, Change, and the Native
American Oral Tradition in Louise Erdrichs Love Medicine(s).
Chapter
7. An
Old Man Looking from the Window: Camille Pissarro, the Tuileries Garden
Paintings and Turning Points in his Career.- Part III. Revisiting and
Control: the Artists Legacy.
Chapter
8. Retrospective Anticipation: Georgia
OKeeffes Efforts at Controlling her Legacy.
Chapter
9. Replaying the Past:
Belgian Pop Band dEUSs Return to Early Work.
Chapter
10. Confessin the
Blues: The Rolling Stones Revisit of their Musical Roots.
Chapter
11.
Artists Haunts: Late Artists Revisiting their Work Beyond their Time.- Part
IV.Transformation and Change in Late Work.
Chapter
12. Space, Time, and
Change in Claude Monets Late Paintings.
Chapter
13. Winter is Coming: The
Voice of Spring by Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1910).
Mette Gieskes is Assistant Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art at Radboud University, The Netherlands. Her publications include articles on Philip Guston, Sol LeWitt, Francis Al˙s, Tamara Muller, and Otobong Nkanga. Gieskes is co-editor of Humor in Global Contemporary Art (Bloomsbury 2024, with Gregory Williams).
Mathilde Roza is Associate Professor of North American Literature and North American Studies at Radboud University, the Netherlands. She has published on American modernism and the international avant-garde, American Modernist author Robert Myron Coates, The New Yorker magazine, Native North American visual art and literature, indigenous soldiers in WWII, cultural diversity, and cultural diplomacy.
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