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The vertical imagination and the crisis of transatlantic modernism /

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"From the invention of skyscrapers and airplanes to the development of the nuclear bomb, ideas about the modern increasingly revolved around vertiginous images of elevation and decline and new technologies of mobility and terror from above. In The Vertical Imagination and the Crisis of Transatl...

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Main Author:	Haacke, Paul (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2021.
Edition:	First edition.
Subjects:	Modernism (Literature) > History. Modernism (Art) Modern movement (Architecture) > Influence. Metaphor in literature. Metaphor in art. Ascension in art. Modernisme (Art) Mouvement moderne (Architecture) > Influence. Métaphore dans la littérature. Ascension in art Metaphor in art Metaphor in literature Modern movement (Architecture) > Influence Modernism (Literature) Electronic books. History
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