Modernism: The Lure of Heresy from Baudelaire to Beckett and Beyond

by Peter Gay

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Peter Gay's most ambitious endeavor since Freud explores the shocking modernist rebellion that, beginning in the 1840s, transformed art, literature, music, and film with its assault on traditional forms. Beginning his epic study with Baudelaire, whose lurid poetry scandalized French stalwarts, Gay traces the revolutionary path of modernism from its Parisian origins to its emergence as the dominant cultural movement in world capitals such as Berlin...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0393052052

ISBN13:9780393052053

Release Date:November 2007

Publisher:W. W. Norton & Company

Length:640 Pages

Weight:2.36 lbs.

Dimensions:1.7" x 6.6" x 9.4"

Related Subjects

Intellectual History Non-Fiction Architecture Art Arts, Music & Photography Europe History History & Criticism Modern (16th-21st Centuries) Modernism

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