2008, ISBN: 0393052052

Gebundene Ausgabe

[EAN: 9780393052053], Gebraucht, sehr guter Zustand, [SC: 4.0], [PU: W.W. Company Inc.], Jacket, 610 p., illustrated. Schutzumschlag an Ränder etwas bestoßen, sonst ein sehr gut erhaltene… Mehr…

[EAN: 9780393052053], Gebraucht, sehr guter Zustand, [SC: 4.0], [PU: W.W. Company Inc.], Jacket, 610 p., illustrated. Schutzumschlag an Ränder etwas bestoßen, sonst ein sehr gut erhaltenes Exemplar, frei von Anstreichungen, bei liegend ein Zeitungskritik von 2008. - Dust jacket a bit bumped at edges, otherwise a very good copy, free of markings, enclosed a newspaper review from 2008. - Peter Gay is the author of more than twenty-five books, including the National Book Award winner The Enlightenment, Weimar Culture, and the widely translated Freud: A Life for Our Time. A Sterling Professor Emeritus at Yale University, Peter Gay lives in New York. - In this highly original, long-awaited study, Peter Gay explores the modernist movement from its beginnings down to our day, with the novels of Gabriel García Marquez and Frank Gehry's splendid Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain. Modernism, originating in the middle of the nineteenth century, was a profoundly subversive and delightfully disrespectful revolution against conventional tastes in painting and fiction, poetry and drama, music and dance, architecture, design, and film. Gay explores them all with portraits of the artists who "piled heresy upon heresy," transgressing rules that had governed traditional art and culture for centuries.Like most great rebellions, modernism was not born with one sudden stroke, like Athena emerging fully formed from the brow of Zeus, but traversed distinct, fascinating histories before it came to be regarded as a dominant cultural revolution. The opening part of this study, which examines the pioneering role of such modernist founders as Charles Baudelaire and Gustave Flaubert, ends roughly with the close of the nineteenth century and the amusing but tragic career of Oscar Wilde, the prophet of art for art's sake. The second and central section of Modernism examines the most effective characters in a great drama: the assault on academic art (witness Edvard Munch, Vasili Kandinsky, Piet Mondrian, and, naturally, Pablo Picasso, "a one-man band among modernists, who launched styles, modified styles, lampooned styles with unquenchable originality until his final years"); the scandalous attack on Victorian fiction (James Joyce, Marcel Proust, and Virginia Woolf, who "cracked her whip on her prose and made the most feral brute cringe at her orders"); the rejection of traditionalist music and poetry (Igor Stravinsky and Arnold Schoenberg, and T. S. Eliot); the move away from timid historicist architecture (this is the age of Bauhaus and that great and immodest American, Frank Lloyd, Peter Wright) o say nothing of the most modern of arts, the movies, with due attention paid to Charlie Chaplin and Orson Welles, that notorious bad boy of American film. As modernism grew to lucrative maturity during the first half of the twentieth century, Gay shows in the third section that there was more to this rebellion than its transgressive achievements. Here we find a cluster of what he calls "antimodern modernists," who, like Eliot, despised the culture in which they were forced to live. In chronicling the decline of high modernism, he also examines the hideous repression of modernist ideas in the Communist, Fascist, and Nazi regimes, which - among other consequences - transported the home of modernism from Paris to New York, and finally analyzes the role of Pop Art in sounding an early death knell of a movement that had dominated Western culture for more than a century. With its elegant prose and sovereign ability to integrate the history of art and literature with the Western society it changed forever, Modernism informs our present like no other recent work of cultural history. Lavishly illustrated, it is a superlative achievement by one of our greatest historians. ISBN 9780393052053 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 1022, Books<

2008, ISBN: 0393052052

Gebundene Ausgabe

[EAN: 9780393052053], D'occasion, très bon état, [SC: 10.0], [PU: W.W. Company Inc.], Jacket, 610 p., illustrated. Schutzumschlag an Ränder etwas bestoßen, sonst ein sehr gut erhaltenes E… Mehr…

[EAN: 9780393052053], D'occasion, très bon état, [SC: 10.0], [PU: W.W. Company Inc.], Jacket, 610 p., illustrated. Schutzumschlag an Ränder etwas bestoßen, sonst ein sehr gut erhaltenes Exemplar, frei von Anstreichungen, bei liegend ein Zeitungskritik von 2008. - Dust jacket a bit bumped at edges, otherwise a very good copy, free of markings, enclosed a newspaper review from 2008. - Peter Gay is the author of more than twenty-five books, including the National Book Award winner The Enlightenment, Weimar Culture, and the widely translated Freud: A Life for Our Time. A Sterling Professor Emeritus at Yale University, Peter Gay lives in New York. - In this highly original, long-awaited study, Peter Gay explores the modernist movement from its beginnings down to our day, with the novels of Gabriel García Marquez and Frank Gehry's splendid Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain. Modernism, originating in the middle of the nineteenth century, was a profoundly subversive and delightfully disrespectful revolution against conventional tastes in painting and fiction, poetry and drama, music and dance, architecture, design, and film. Gay explores them all with portraits of the artists who "piled heresy upon heresy," transgressing rules that had governed traditional art and culture for centuries.Like most great rebellions, modernism was not born with one sudden stroke, like Athena emerging fully formed from the brow of Zeus, but traversed distinct, fascinating histories before it came to be regarded as a dominant cultural revolution. The opening part of this study, which examines the pioneering role of such modernist founders as Charles Baudelaire and Gustave Flaubert, ends roughly with the close of the nineteenth century and the amusing but tragic career of Oscar Wilde, the prophet of art for art's sake. The second and central section of Modernism examines the most effective characters in a great drama: the assault on academic art (witness Edvard Munch, Vasili Kandinsky, Piet Mondrian, and, naturally, Pablo Picasso, "a one-man band among modernists, who launched styles, modified styles, lampooned styles with unquenchable originality until his final years"); the scandalous attack on Victorian fiction (James Joyce, Marcel Proust, and Virginia Woolf, who "cracked her whip on her prose and made the most feral brute cringe at her orders"); the rejection of traditionalist music and poetry (Igor Stravinsky and Arnold Schoenberg, and T. S. Eliot); the move away from timid historicist architecture (this is the age of Bauhaus and that great and immodest American, Frank Lloyd, Peter Wright) o say nothing of the most modern of arts, the movies, with due attention paid to Charlie Chaplin and Orson Welles, that notorious bad boy of American film. As modernism grew to lucrative maturity during the first half of the twentieth century, Gay shows in the third section that there was more to this rebellion than its transgressive achievements. Here we find a cluster of what he calls "antimodern modernists," who, like Eliot, despised the culture in which they were forced to live. In chronicling the decline of high modernism, he also examines the hideous repression of modernist ideas in the Communist, Fascist, and Nazi regimes, which - among other consequences - transported the home of modernism from Paris to New York, and finally analyzes the role of Pop Art in sounding an early death knell of a movement that had dominated Western culture for more than a century. With its elegant prose and sovereign ability to integrate the history of art and literature with the Western society it changed forever, Modernism informs our present like no other recent work of cultural history. Lavishly illustrated, it is a superlative achievement by one of our greatest historians. ISBN 9780393052053 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 1022, Books<

2007, ISBN: 0393052052

[EAN: 9780393052053], Gebraucht, sehr guter Zustand, [PU: W. W. Norton & Company], 2008 - Hardback with dustjacket. First Edition,First Printing. Book is in very good condition. Very ligh… Mehr…

[EAN: 9780393052053], Gebraucht, sehr guter Zustand, [PU: W. W. Norton & Company], 2008 - Hardback with dustjacket. First Edition,First Printing. Book is in very good condition. Very light shelf wear. Free tracking with domestic orders. MD SKU-8709549 HistWorld, Books<