The artistic movement known as modernism, which includes the historical avant-garde, produced the most radical and comprehensive change in Western culture since Romanticism. Its effects reverberated through all the arts, permanently altering their formal repertories and their relations with society at large, and its products still surround us in our workplaces and homes. Although modernism produced a pervasive cultural upheaval, it can never be assessed as an artistic movement alone: its contours took shape against the background of social, political, and intellectual change, and it was always bound up with large questions of modernity and modernization and with the intellectual challenge of sifting their meanings. Henry McBride (1867–1962) became perhaps the leading American critic of his time to write perceptively and engagingly on modern art. The Henry McBride Series in Modernism and Modernity, which focuses on modernism and the arts in their many contexts, is respectfully dedicated to his memory.

Editorial Committee

Lawrence Rainey, University of York, General Editor

Ronald Bush, Oxford University

Arthur Danto, Columbia University

Charles Harrison, Open University

Jean-Michel Rabaté, University of Pennsylvania

Jeffrey Schnapp, Stanford University

Richard Taruskin, University of California, Berkeley

Robert Wohl, University of California, Los Angeles