Modernism
The Lure of Heresy - From Baudelaire to Beckett and Beyond
$57.35
- Paperback
656 pages
- Release Date
15 November 2008
Summary
A brilliant, provocative long essay on the rise and fall and survival of modernism, by the English-language’s greatest living cultural historian.
In his most ambitious endeavor since Freud, acclaimed cultural historian Peter Gay traces and explores the rise of Modernism in the arts, the cultural movement that heralded and shaped the modern world, dominating western high culture for over a century.
He traces the revolutionary path of modernism from its Parisian origins…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099441960 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0099441969 |
| Author: | Peter Gay |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 656 |
| Release Date: | 15 November 2008 |
| Weight: | 514g |
| Dimensions: | 39mm x 129mm x 198mm |
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Critics Review
Beautifully written, wide-ranging and psychologically acute, Modernism: The Lure of Heresy is a celebration of the subversive energies that decisively transformed art and culture in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. At once bracingly intelligent and elegiac, Gay’s magisterial book is richly rewarding for anyone who wants to understand the fractured world we have all inherited – Stephen Greenblatt
Superbly researched and well recounted. The extent to which many [modernists] “sold out” to their wealthy patrons, adopting the values they once scorned, makes for some engrossing reading * Scotsman *
Highly readable, well-illustrated…an intelligent and exciting account of creative individuals and the times in which they worked… An enormous achievement * New Statesman *
An exhaustive and lively summary – James Urquhart * Financial Times *
Written… with a polymathematical verve which carried me with him to the end – Nicholas Bagnall * Sunday Telegraph *
An absorbing account of how international artistic rebellion became mainstream and lucrative – Christopher Hirst * Independent *
Peter Gay has outdone himself. In his hands Modernism adds up to more than the sum of its subversive, sensational, unsettling parts. This is cultural history of the highest magnitude, a work as astute in its analyses as it is massive in its ambition. And as ever, it is written with stunning lucidity. A splendid, invigorating achievement – Stacy Schiff
A wonderful book. You can be sure that students and journalists and teachers will be stealing from Modernism for years to come. Bravo! – Hilton Kramer
Peter Gay
Peter Gay is Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale University and former director of the New York Public Library’s Center for Scholars and Writers. He is the author of more than twenty-five books, including the National Book Award winner, The Enlightenment, the best-selling Weimar Culture, and the widely translated Freud: A Life for Our Time.
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