Modernism and the museum [electronic resource] : Asian, African, and Pacific art and the London avant-garde / Rupert Richard Arrowsmith. Arrowsmith, Rupert Richard, 1968- Modernism (Art) Modernism (Literature) Museums England London. N6490 709.04 22 Includes bibliographical references and index. Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed Dec. 16, 2010). By demonstrating that many of the concepts and styles associated with modernism were actually derived directly from cultures such as Japan, China, Korea, India, Egypt, Assyria, West Africa, and the Pacific Islands, this book provides an entirely new way of looking at the evolution of modernist art and literature in the West. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2010. 2010. 2010 Text 1 online resource. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199593699.001.0001 eng Oxford English monographs Oxford English monographs. England London.