The mental life of modernism : why poetry, painting, and music changed at the turn of the twentieth century /

Most accounts of Modernism take the view that the movement's characteristic shifts, abstraction in painting, atonality in music and free verse in poetry are cultural. This book puts a different account on the table. It argues that Modernism is fundamentally a cognitive shift, one in which the b...

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Main Author:	Keyser, Samuel Jay, 1935- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge, Massachusetts : MIT Press, [2020].
Subjects:	Arts > Psychology. Communication in art. Modernism (Art) Modernism (Literature) Modernism (Music)