Author: Janet Wilson
Publisher: Continuum
Keywords: modernism, historicizing, literary, mansfield, katherine
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2011-07-11
List price: $110.00
ISBN-10: 1441111301
ISBN-13: 9781441111302
A reinterpretation of Katharine Mansfield’s work that expands our understanding of her place in Modernism.
Author: Richard Westo
Publisher: Phaidon Pre
Keywords: modernism
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2001-04-24
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0714840998
ISBN-13: 9780714840994
Modernist ideas have pervaded every form of design, from graphics to architecture, as well as being a key influence on art, literature and music. In this comprehensive survey, Richard Weston traces the course of Modernism from its beginnings to its contemporary manifestations. He explores the Modernist movements of the early twentieth century ? Cubism, Surrealism, Futurism and Purism ? and concludes with the ’post-modernist’ experiments of the 1980s and 1990s. He shows how the ’tradition of the new’ became the creative credo of a small group of progressive artists and h
Author: Peter Gay
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Keywords: heresy, lure, modernism
Number of Pages: 640
Published: 2007-11-12
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0393052052
ISBN-13: 9780393052053
A celebration of subversives: the first one-volume history of the greatest cultural movement since the Enlightenment. Peter Gay’s most ambitious endeavor since Freud explores the shocking modernist rebellion that, beginning in the 1840s, transformed art, literature, music, and film with its assault on traditional forms. Beginning his epic study with Baudelaire, whose lurid poetry scandalized French stalwarts, Gay traces the revolutionary path of modernism from its Parisian origins to its emergence as the dominant cultural movement in world capitals such as Berlin and New York. A work uni
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Publisher: Yale University Press
Keywords: century, twentieth, art, modernism, varieties
Number of Pages: 424
Published: 2004-07-11
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0300102968
ISBN-13: 9780300102963
This book, the third in the Art of the Twentieth Century series, considers works of art produced in Europe and the United States between the 1930s and the 1960s.Arranged in four main parts, this abundantly illustrated book begins by examining aspects of the European avant-garde from the 1930s to the aftermath of the Second World War. The second part focuses on the emergence of Abstract Expressionism in the U.S., in particular the work of Jackson Pollock and important critics. Part three looks at autonomous high modernism of the early to mid-1960s and the contemporary, related modernist theor
Author: Peter Gay
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Keywords: heresy, lure, modernism
Number of Pages: 640
Published: 2010-08-16
List price: $21.95
ISBN-10: 0393333965
ISBN-13: 9780393333961
Rich, learned, briskly written, maddening yet necessary study.Lee Siegel, New York Times Book Review Peter Gay explores the shocking modernist rebellion that, beginning in the 1840s, transformed art, literature, music, and film. Modernism presents a thrilling pageant of heretics that includes Oscar Wilde, Pablo Picasso, D. W. Griffiths, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, T. S. Eliot, Walter Gropius, Arnold Schoenberg, and (of course!) Andy Warhol. 16 pages of four-color illustrations and 92 black-and-white illustrations throughout
Author: Marius Turda
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Keywords: eugenics, modernism
Number of Pages: 184
Published: 2010-11-15
List price: $29.00
ISBN-10: 0230230830
ISBN-13: 9780230230835
Is the nation an ’imagined community’ centered on culture or rather a biological community determined by heredity? Modernism and Eugenics examines this question from a bifocal perspective. On the one hand, it looks at technologies through which the individual body was re-defined eugenically by a diverse range of European scientists and politicians between 1870 and 1940; on the other, it illuminates how the national community was represented by eugenic discourses that strove to battle a perceived process of cultural decay and biological degeneration. In the wake of a renewed interes
Author: Charles Harriso
Publisher: Cambridge University Pre
Keywords: art, modern, movements, modernism
Number of Pages: 96
Published: 1997-07-13
List price: $22.99
ISBN-10: 0521627583
ISBN-13: 9780521627580
What is modernism? The term is used generally to convey a faith in progress and a healthy skepticism for received ideas and traditional values. More specifically, the modernist tendency has often been associated with the most vital developments and highest achievements in the art of the past 150 years. However, those concerned with maintaining traditional values in one form or another see "modernist" art as merely one alternative among many, and perhaps even an empty or misguided one. This introduction looks at modernist works in order to consider what are the defining characteristics of moder
