Modernism:TheLureofHeresy-FromBaudelairetoBeckettandBeyond
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- 出版社 Vintage
- 出版时间 2009年12月
- ISBN 9780099441960
- 定价 162.80
内容简介
AcclaimedculturalhistorianPeterGaytracesandexplorestheriseofartisticModernism,theculturalmovementthatheraldedandshapedthemodernworld,dominatingwesternhighcultureforoveracentury.PeterGay'smostambitiousendeavoursinceFreudexplorestheshockingmodernistrebellionthat,beginninginthe1840s,transformedart,literature,music,andfilmwithitsassaultontraditionalforms.BeginninghisepicstudywithBaudelaire,whoseluridpoetryscandalisedFrenchstalwarts,GaytracestherevolutionarypathofmodernismfromitsParisianoriginstoitsemergenceasthedominantculturalmovementinworldcapitalssuchasBerlinandNewYork.Aworkuniqueinitsbreadthandbrilliance,Modernismpresentsathrillingpageantofhereticsthatincludes(amongothers)OscarWilde,PabloPicasso,andD.W.Griffiths;JamesJoyce,VirginiaWoolf,andT.S.Eliot;WalterGropius,ArnoldSchoenberg,and(ofcourse!)AndyWarhol.Finally,GayexaminesthehostilityoftotalitarianregimestomodernistfreedomandtheroleofPopArtinsoundingthedeathknellofamovementthatdominatedWesternculturefor120years.Lavishlyillustrated,Modernismisasuperlativeachievementbyoneofourgreatesthistorians.
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