Terrible Beauty: A Cultural History of the Twentieth Century
The People and Ideas that Shaped the Modern Mind: A History
- Paperback
864 pages
- Release Date
1 February 2002
Summary
A TERRIBLE BEAUTY presents a unique narrative of the twentieth century. Unlike more conventional histories, where the focus is on political events and personalities, on wars, treaties and elections, this book concentrates on the ideas that made the century so rich, rewarding and provocative. Beginning with four seminal ideas which were introduced in 1900 - the unconscious, the gene, the quantum and Picasso’s first paintings in Paris - the book brings together the main areas of thought and jux…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781842124444 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1842124447 |
| Author: | Peter Watson |
| Publisher: | Orion Publishing Co |
| Imprint: | Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 864 |
| Release Date: | 1 February 2002 |
| Weight: | 1.22kg |
| Dimensions: | 230mm x 153mm x 45mm |
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Breathtakingly entertaining , endlessly instructive, irresistibly enjoyable
Breathtakingly entertaining, endlessly instructive, irresistibly enjoyable * THE TIMES *A tour de force of monumental proportions … flawlessly, mesmerically narrative … its capacity to engage is almost intoxicating * SPECTATOR *A brilliant concept … I am lost in admiration * GLASGOW HERALD *This mammoth history of 20th-century ideas is a tour de force, the product of omnivorous reading and encyclopaedic erudition … Watson is a highly talented populariser with a gift for precis * INDEPENDENT *A TERRIBLE BEAUTY is a magnificent achievement, highly readable, absorbing and stimulating * LITERARY REVIEW *
About The Author
Peter Watson
Peter Watson was born in 1943 and educated at the universities of Durham, London and Rome. He was deputy editor of New Society and spent four years as part of the Insight team of The Sunday Times. He was New York correspondent of The Times and has written for the Observer, The New York Times, Punch and the Spectator. He is the author of thirteen books and has presented several television programmes about the arts. Since 1998 he has been a Research Associate at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research at the University of Cambridge.
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