Modernism The Lure Of Heresy From Baudelaire To Beckett & Beyond
GAY Peter
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Acclaimed cultural historian Peter Gay traces and explores the rise of artistic Modernism, the cultural movement that heralded and shaped the modern world, dominating western high culture for over a century. Peter Gay's most ambitious endeavour 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 scandalised 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 unique in its bread ...
Publication date: 2009-12-03
Number of pages: 640
Publisher: Vintage Books
Subjects:
Non-fiction, Art/design/film, Art & Artists, History Of Art / Art & Design Styles, The Arts: General Issues, Music, Humanities, History, 20th Century History: C 1900 To C 2000, European History
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