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Modernism the Lure of Heresy
Peter Gay
其他書名
From Baudelaire To Beckett And Beyond
出版
W. W. Norton & Company
, 2008
主題
Architecture / History / General
Art / History / General
History / General
History / Modern / 19th Century
History / Modern / 20th Century / General
Literary Criticism / General
Literary Criticism / Semiotics & Theory
Music / History & Criticism
ISBN
0393052052
9780393052053
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=CwQCv23wK7QC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
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 unique in its breadth and brilliance,
Modernism
presents a thrilling pageant of heretics that includes (among others) Oscar Wilde, Pablo Picasso, and D. W. Griffiths; James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, and T. S. Eliot; Walter Gropius, Arnold Schoenberg, and (of course!) Andy Warhol. Finally, Gay examines the hostility of totalitarian regimes to modernist freedom and the role of Pop Art in sounding the death knell of a movement that dominated Western culture for 120 years. Lavishly illustrated,
Modernism
is a superlative achievement by one of our greatest historians.