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Putting Modernism Together: Literature, Music, and Painting, 1872-1927

Putting Modernism Together: Literature, Music, and Painting, 1872-1927

Albright, Daniel

Paperback

Series: Hopkins Studies in Modernism

Art HistoryLiterary CriticismMusic Reference

ISBN10: 1421416441
ISBN13: 9781421416441
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: Jun 1 2015
Pages: 344
Weight: 1.05
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

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 center of the modernist movement by assessing these various artistic models, exploring how they generated a stunning range of creative work that was nonetheless wound together aesthetically, and sorting out the cultural assumptions that made each philosophical system attractive.

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