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Modern Times, Modern Places
Peter Conrad
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Description for Modern Times, Modern Places
Paperback. An exploration of modern assumptions about God, social, economic, and political structures, through the analysis of contemporary cultural expression. This is combined with a study of the locations that successively became the frontiers of modernity, such as Vienna, Moscow, Paris and Berlin, as well as America. Num Pages: 752 pages, 166 illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JJ; AB; ACX; AV; DSB; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 232 x 167 x 45. Weight in Grams: 1190. Clean copy with minor shelf wear
The world changed faster during the 20th century than ever before. All our previous assumptions about God, our social, economic and political structures, science and technology, and - by extension - ourselves and our culture were utterly transformed. The 20th century was the century that dared to question everything – and its progress is told in this tour de force.
'Modern Times' are explored through the cultural expressions - in art, in literature, in music - of the true conviction that we lived through an unprecedentedly testing period in human experience. 'Modern Places' are the locations ... Read more
The world changed faster during the 20th century than ever before. All our previous assumptions about God, our social, economic and political structures, science and technology, and - by extension - ourselves and our culture were utterly transformed. The 20th century was the century that dared to question everything – and its progress is told in this tour de force.
'Modern Times' are explored through the cultural expressions - in art, in literature, in music - of the true conviction that we lived through an unprecedentedly testing period in human experience. 'Modern Places' are the locations ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Thames and Hudson Ltd
Condition
Used, Very Good
Number of Pages
752
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780500281512
SKU
KMK0006766
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1
About Peter Conrad
Peter Conrad taught English literature at Christ Church, Oxford, from 1973 to 2011. He has written more than twenty books, including How the World Was Won: The Americanization of Everywhere; Creation: Artists, Gods & Origins; At Home in Australia; and Modern Times, Modern Places: Life and Art in the Twentieth Century, all published by Thames & Hudson.
Reviews for Modern Times, Modern Places
'… a book with everything in it, a fascinating melange, going in all directions at once' - Hanif Kureishi, Guardian (Books of the Year) 'A blockbuster of a book, a work which will inspire admiration and wonder … writing with equal assurance about poetry, novels, painting, architecture, film and music ' - Sunday Telegraph 'Conrad is stunningly well-informed, compulsively allusive ... Read more