%0 Journal Article %T "Mainstreaming the Avant-Garde: Modernism in Life Magazine (New York, 1883–1936)" %+ Université de Picardie Jules Verne (UPJV) %+ Conflits, représentations et dialogues dans l'univers anglo-saxon - UR UPJV 4295 (CORPUS) %A Mansanti, Céline %< avec comité de lecture %@ 2506-6587 %J Journal of European Periodical Studies %I UGent Open Acess Journals %V 1 %N 2 %P 113 %8 2016-12-31 %D 2016 %R 10.21825/jeps.v1i2.2644 %Z Humanities and Social SciencesJournal articles %X This paper explores the relationship between literary modernism and mainstream culture within a little-studied American magazine, Life (New York, 1884-1936). It does so by looking at three ways in which Life presented modernism to its readers: by quoting modernist writing, and, above all, by satirizing modernist art, and by offering didactic explanations of modernist art and literature. By reconsidering some of the long-established divisions between high and low culture, and between ‘little’ and ‘bigger’ magazines, this paper contributes to a better understanding of what modernism was and meant. It also suggests that the double agenda observed in Life – both satirical and didactic – might be a way of defining middlebrow magazines. %G English %L hal-03647662 %U https://u-picardie.hal.science/hal-03647662 %~ SHS %~ UNIV-PICARDIE %~ U-PICARDIE %~ CORPUS-UPJV