ISBN: 9780226388687

Modernism and Masculinity argues that a crisis of masculinity among European writers and artists played a key role in the modernist revolution. Gerald Izenberg revises the notion that the… Mehr…

Modernism and Masculinity argues that a crisis of masculinity among European writers and artists played a key role in the modernist revolution. Gerald Izenberg revises the notion that the feminine provided a premodern refuge for artists critical of individualism and materialism. Industrialization and the growing power of the market inspired novelist Thomas Mann, playwright Frank Wedelind, and painter Wassily Kandinsky to feel the problematic character of their own masculinity. As a result, these artists each came to identify creativity, transcendence, and freedom with the feminine.But their critique of masculinity created enormous challenges: How could they appropriate a feminine aesthetic while retaining their own masculine idenitites? How did appropiating the feminine affect their personal relationships or their political views? Modernism and Masculinity seeks to answer these questions. In this absorbing combination of biography and formal critique, Izenberg reconsiders the works of Mann, Wedekind, Kandinsky and semonstrates how the cirses of masculinity they endure are found not just within the images and forms of their art, but in the distinct and very personal impulses that inspired it. Trade Books>Hardcover>Classics>Lit Studies>Lit Theory & Criticism, University of Chicago Press Core >2<

2000, ISBN: 9780226388687

University of Chicago Press, Hardcover, Auflage: Illustrated, 262 Seiten, Publiziert: 2000-10-30T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Book, Hersteller-Nr.: 6 colour plates, 4 halftones, 0.34 kg, Lit… Mehr…

University of Chicago Press, Hardcover, Auflage: Illustrated, 262 Seiten, Publiziert: 2000-10-30T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Book, Hersteller-Nr.: 6 colour plates, 4 halftones, 0.34 kg, Literature & Drama, Arts & Humanities, Undergraduate & Postgraduate, Special Features, Books, Books Global Store, History & Criticism, Arts & Photography, Subjects, World War I, War & Espionage, Biography, Europe, Literary Theory & Movements, Poetry, Drama & Criticism, Reference, Press & Journalism, Media & Communication Industries, Communication Studies, Politics, Philosophy & Social Sciences, Cultural Studies, Gender Studies, Format: Illustrated, University of Chicago Press, 2000<

ISBN: 9780226388687

Hardback, [PU: The University of Chicago Press], This work argues that a crisis of masculinity among European writers and artists played a key role in the modernist revolution. The author… Mehr…

Hardback, [PU: The University of Chicago Press], This work argues that a crisis of masculinity among European writers and artists played a key role in the modernist revolution. The author revises the notion that the feminine provided a pre-modern refuge for artists critical of individualism and materialism., Art History: c 1900 -, Literary Theory, Literary Studies: General, Literary Studies: From C 1900 -, European History, Modern History To 20th Century: C 1700 To C 1900, Cultural Studies, Gender Studies, Gender Groups, Gender Studies: Men<

ISBN: 9780226388687

Hardback, [PU: The University of Chicago Press], This work argues that a crisis of masculinity among European writers and artists played a key role in the modernist revolution. The author… Mehr…

Hardback, [PU: The University of Chicago Press], This work argues that a crisis of masculinity among European writers and artists played a key role in the modernist revolution. The author revises the notion that the feminine provided a pre-modern refuge for artists critical of individualism and materialism., European History<