Modernism : the lure of heresy : from Baudelaire to Beckett and beyond / Peter Gay.

By:

Gay, Peter, 1923-2015

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TextPublication details: New York ; London : W.W. Norton, c2008.Edition: 1st edDescription: xxii, 610 p. : ill. b&w ; 25 cmISBN:

9780393333961

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DDC classification:

700.9

Contents:

A climate for modernism -- Pt. 1. Founders -- Ch. 1. Professional outsiders -- Ch. 2. Irreconcilables and impresarios -- Pt. 2. Classics -- Ch. 3. Painting and sculpture: the madness of the unexpected -- Ch. 4. Prose and poetry: intermittences of the heart -- Ch. 5. Music and dance: the liberation of sound -- Ch. 6. Architecture and design: machinery, a new factor in human affairs -- Ch. 7. Drama and movies: the human element -- Pt. 3. Endings -- Ch. 8. Eccentrics and barbarians -- Ch. 9. Life after death? -- Coda: And Gehry at Bilbao.

Summary: 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.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

A climate for modernism --
Pt. 1. Founders --
Ch. 1. Professional outsiders --
Ch. 2. Irreconcilables and impresarios --
Pt. 2. Classics --
Ch. 3. Painting and sculpture: the madness of the unexpected --
Ch. 4. Prose and poetry: intermittences of the heart --
Ch. 5. Music and dance: the liberation of sound --
Ch. 6. Architecture and design: machinery, a new factor in human affairs --
Ch. 7. Drama and movies: the human element --
Pt. 3. Endings --
Ch. 8. Eccentrics and barbarians --
Ch. 9. Life after death? --
Coda: And Gehry at Bilbao.

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.

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