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Corn, Wanda Marie was born on November 13, 1940 in New Haven. Daughter of Keith M. and Lydia M. (Fox) Jones.
(Great American Thing : Modern Art and National Identity, ...)
Great American Thing : Modern Art and National Identity, 1915-1935 by Wanda M. Corn. University of California Press,1999
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Wanda M. Corn's long-awaited new book proposes a remarkable revisioning of the history of American modern art between the two world wars. Moving away from issues of style and abstraction, she bases her work on a broad examination of culture and on discourses of national identity. Corn argues that the key questions for interwar modernists in New York and Paris were whether or not it was possible to create an art that was both American and modern, and if it was, what such an art would look like. Both European and American artists debated these questions and made art that responded to them. Corn organizes each chapter around a careful reading of a work of art, probing first its peculiar poetry and style and then its connection to its artist and the cultural influences surrounding it. The result is an unfolding of the work's contingent relationships with history, literature, art criticism, music, and popular culture. The works she examines—from those made by the Stieglitz circle to those by European Dadaists—were part of the quest for "the Great American Thing," a quest that was international in scope and that inspired a decade of vibrant cultural exchange between the art capitals of Europe and New York. Passionate and eminently readable, with more than 300 illustrations—drawings, paintings, sculptures, advertisements, cartoons, and documentary photographs—The Great American Thing indelibly alters the way we think about the first decades of American modernism and the legacy it created.
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Corn, Wanda Marie was born on November 13, 1940 in New Haven. Daughter of Keith M. and Lydia M. (Fox) Jones.
Bachelor, New York University, 1963. Master of Arts, New York University, 1965. Doctor of Philosophy, New York University, 1974.
Instructor art history Washington Square College, New York University, 1965—1966. Lecturer Mills College, Oakland, California, 1970, visiting assistant professor, 1971, assistant professor, 1972—1977, associate professor, 1977—1980, Stanford University, 1980—1989, professor, 1989—2008. Lecturer University California, Berkeley, 1970, visiting assistant professor, 76.
Visiting curator Fine Arts Museum, San Francisco, 1972, 73, 76, Minneapolis Institute Arts, 1983—1984, Grant Wood travelling exhibition to Whitney Museum American Art, New York City, Art Institute Chicago. Research associate Smithsonian Institution, since 1983. Chair department art Stanford University, 1989—1991.
Acting director Stanford Museum, 1989—1991. Director Stanford Humanities Center, 1992—1995. Clark professor Williams College, 2004.
Kress professor Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National, Gallery Art, 2006—2007.
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Commissioner Smithsonian American Art Museum, 1988—1995. Board directors Terra Foundation American Art, 2002—2008, Wyeth Foundation for American Art, since 2002. Member of Association Historians of America Art, American Studies Association (national council 1986-1989), Women's Caucus for Art, College Art Association (board directors 1970-1973, 1980-1984, program chairman annual meeting 1981, member numerous committees).
Married Joseph J. Corn, July 27, 1963.