The Cambridge history of modernism /
This 'Cambridge History of Modernism' is the first comprehensive history of modernism in the distinguished Cambridge Histories series. It identifies a distinctive temperament of 'modernism' within the 'modern' period, establishing the circumstances of modernized life as...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2016.
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| Summary: | This 'Cambridge History of Modernism' is the first comprehensive history of modernism in the distinguished Cambridge Histories series. It identifies a distinctive temperament of 'modernism' within the 'modern' period, establishing the circumstances of modernized life as the ground and warrant for an art that becomes 'modernist' by virtue of its demonstrably self-conscious involvement in this modern condition. Following this sensibility from the end of the nineteenth century to the middle of the twentieth, tracking its manifestations across pan-European and transatlantic locations, the forty-three chapters offer a remarkable combination of breadth and focus. Prominent scholars of modernism provide analytical narratives of its literature, music, visual arts, architecture, philosophy and science, offering circumstantial accounts of its diverse personnel in their many settings. These historically informed readings offer definitive accounts of the major work of twentieth-century cultural history and provide a new cornerstone for the study of modernism in the current century. |
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| Physical Description: | xxxiii, 929 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 835-883) and index. |
| ISBN: | 1107034698 9781107034693 |