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Putting Modernism Together: Literature, Music, and Painting, 1872–1927
Daniel Albright
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Description for Putting Modernism Together: Literature, Music, and Painting, 1872–1927
Paperback. Going beyond merely explaining how the artists in these genres achieved their peculiar effects, he presents challenging new analyses of telling craft details which help students and scholars come to know more fully this bold age of aesthetic extremism. Series: Hopkins Studies in Modernism. Num Pages: 344 pages, 47, 47 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: ACB; AFC; AV; DSB. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 153 x 24. Weight in Grams: 470.
How do you rationally connect the diverse literature, music, and painting of an age? Throughout the modernist era-which began roughly in 1872 with the Franco-Prussian War, climaxed with the Great War, and ended with a third catastrophe, the Great Depression-there was a special belligerence to this question. It was a cultural period that envisioned many different models of itself: to the Cubists, it looked like a vast jigsaw puzzle; to the Expressionists, it resembled a convulsive body; to the Dadaists, it brought to mind a heap of junk following an explosion. In Putting Modernism Together, Daniel Albright searches for the ... Read more
How do you rationally connect the diverse literature, music, and painting of an age? Throughout the modernist era-which began roughly in 1872 with the Franco-Prussian War, climaxed with the Great War, and ended with a third catastrophe, the Great Depression-there was a special belligerence to this question. It was a cultural period that envisioned many different models of itself: to the Cubists, it looked like a vast jigsaw puzzle; to the Expressionists, it resembled a convulsive body; to the Dadaists, it brought to mind a heap of junk following an explosion. In Putting Modernism Together, Daniel Albright searches for the ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Series
Hopkins Studies in Modernism
Condition
New
Weight
474g
Number of Pages
344
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9781421416441
SKU
V9781421416441
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About Daniel Albright
Daniel Albright was the Ernest Bernbaum Professor of Literature at Harvard University and the author of many books, including Panaesthetics: On the Unity and Diversity of the Arts and Quantum Poetics: Yeats, Pound, Eliot, and the Science of Modernism.
Reviews for Putting Modernism Together: Literature, Music, and Painting, 1872–1927
Scholarly and impressive... Such a thorough consideration of the interconnectedness of modernism illuminates how truly revolutionary this artistic movement was. Choice