First published in 1983, "The Anti-Aesthetic" is a touchstone volume for postmodern dialogue and theory. Contributors include: Jurgen Habermas, Frederic Jameson, Edward Said, Kenneth Frampton, and Douglas Crimp.
The similarities between madness and modernism are striking: defiance of authority, nihilism, extreme relativism, distortions of time, strange transformations of self, and much more. In this book, Louis Sass, a clinical psychologist, offers a new vision of schizophrenia, comparing it with the works of such artists and writers as Kafka, Beckett, ...
Twentieth century Danish furniture design is simple and clean, mixes well with other design styles, and has an inherent value and history beyond its beauty. In "Danish Modern", Andrew Hollingsworth explores the history of Danish design, from the earliest cabinetmakers' guilds in the 1770s through the impact of two world wars, and its evolution ...
Beginning with the startling twentieth century developments in physics and the Freudian revolution, this book of "The Humanistic Tradition" addresses 100 years of precipitous change. The exciting conclusion to the six-book series, "Modernism", "Globalism", and the "Information Age" can also be used as a literary or cultural supplement to courses ...
Lavishly illustrated, "Moscow & St. Petersburg 1900-1920 "is the quintessential guide to Russia's vibrant and influential Silver Age. In this elegantly written narrative survey, John E. Bowlt sheds new light on Russia's Silver Age, the period of artistic renaissance that flourished as Imperial Russia's power waned. Much of the creative energy ...
In the spring of 1900, British archaeologist Arthur Evans began to excavate the palace of Knossos on Crete, bringing ancient Greek legends to life just as a new century dawned amid far-reaching questions about human history, art, and culture. Over the next three decades, Evans engaged in an unprecedented reconstruction project, creating a complex ...
With its unconventional dialogue, obscure melodies, and unique costumes, "Four Saints in Three Acts" was a uniquely avant-garde Broadway hit in the 1930s. This study examines the show's creation and legacy, and profiles the various people responsible for its overwhelming success. Gertrude Stein wrote the libretto, Virgil Thomson composed the score ...
In this book, the distinguished historian Carl Schorske - author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning "Fin-de-Siecle Vienna" - draws together a series of essays that reveal the changing place of history in nineteenth-and twentieth-century cultures. In most intellectual and artistic fields, Schorske argues, twentieth-century Europeans and Americans have ...
Modernism in architecture and urban design has failed the American city. This is the decisive conclusion that renowned public intellectual Nathan Glazer has drawn from two decades of writing and thinking about what this architectural movement will bequeath to future generations. In "From a Cause to a Style", he proclaims his disappointment with ...
Imagining a new self equal to the new art of modernism, the author presents primordial and futuristic fictions of origin in the work of Gauguin, Picasso, F. T. Marinetti, Max Ernst, and others. How to imagine not only a new art or architecture but a new self or subject equal to them? In "Prosthetic Gods", Hal Foster explores this question through ...
This text is part of a six-volume work which offers an overview of art, music, literature, history and philosophy. Book 6 explores the global village of the 20th century. It looks at the Freudian revolution, total war, the postmodern turn and the arts in the information age. The text focuses on the Western tradition, but also includes strong ...
During the years of the Great Depression in America, modernist designers developed products and lifestyle concepts intended for middle-class, not elite, consumers. In this remarkable book, Kristina Wilson coins the term "livable modernism" to describe this school of design. Livable modernism combined International Style functional efficiency and ...
"Modernism: Designing a New World" is the first book to explore Modernism in the designed world from a truly international perspective, and across all the arts. It offers a reassessment of the idea of Modernism and reveals the fundamental ways in which it has shaped our own world and its visual culture. Modernism flourished during the years 1914 ...
Does technology alter our ways of being in and perceiving the world, or does it merely serve as a conduit for predetermined patterns of culture? In addressing this question, Popular Modernity in America examines a broad range of related cultural and technological phenomena -- from Bing Crosby to Ice Cube, from the invention of the telegraph to the ...
An interdisciplinary account of modernism. It encompasses physics, the visual arts and literature in an analysis of the period from the 1880s to World War II. They derive six common characteristics of modernism, and describe and analyze these in nontechnical terms.
This sweeping work, at once a panoramic overview and an ambitious critical reinterpretation of European modernism, provides a bold new perspective on a movement that defined the cultural landscape of the early twentieth century. Walter L. Adamson embarks on a lucid, wide-ranging exploration of the avant-garde practices through which the modernist ...
A critical, historical, and theoretical re-reading of McLuhan's literary and cultural projects. Willmott re-evalutaes McLuhan as a thinker and writer who moved along the borders of academic and popular culture, and locates him as an integral presence in the history of modern critical thought.
"This is a book about the making of cities and the buildings that compose them. It is about the conditions under which an architect engaged in those activities now works, how those conditions evolved and why they are changing. It is about the qualities of life that are threatened by the ways cities are built at the beginning of the 21st century ...
Over the last three centuries the world has been modernized. From the first stirrings of industrialism to the definitive arrival of globalization, artists, craftspeople and designers have engaged with modernization in order to make sense of the transformations it continually imposes. They have been, by turns, brutally critical and profoundly ...
Casting fresh light on the renowned productions of auteurs such as Antonioni, Fellini, and Bresson and drawing out from the shadows a range of important but lesser-known works, "Screening Modernism" is the first comprehensive study of European art cinema's postwar heyday. Spanning from the 1950s to the 1970s, Andras Balint Kovacs' encyclopedic ...
In THE SENSES OF MODERNISM, Sara Danius develops a radically new theoretical and historical understanding of high modernism. The author closely analyzes Thomas Mann's THE MAGIC MOUNTAIN, Marcel Proust's REMEMBRANCE OF THINGS PAST, and James Joyce's ULYSSES as narratives of the sweeping changes that affected high and low culture in the age of ...
Edward Comentale exposes the links between art, literature and early twentieth-century capitalism. Comentale shows how apparently progressive avant-garde movements in their celebration of individualism, competition and labor worked hand in hand with a market defined by a monstrous increase in production and consumption. Most importantly, he ...
"Gender in Modernism", conceived as a sequel to the now-classic volume "The Gender of Modernism", selects the best from the fifteen years of feminist literary and modernist scholarship that has appeared since the original's publication. Its fresh and diverse texts examine new themes and reflect today's broader, more inclusive understanding of ...
Few designers did more to influence the appearance of postwar American interiors than the furniture designer Gilbert Rohde (1894-1944). This first in-depth book on Rohde explores how he brought an industrial design perspective to the furniture industry and, in the process, introduced modernism to a broad range of Americans, especially through his ...
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