By Michael Levenson
In this wide-ranging and unique account of Modernism, Michael Levenson attracts on greater than two decades of study and a career-long fascination with the flow, its individuals, and the interval within which it thrived. looking a extra refined realizing of the relatives among the period's texts and contexts, he offers not just a superb survey but in addition an important reassessment of Modernism itself.
Spanning many a long time, illuminating person achievements and finding them in the intersecting histories of test (Symbolism to Surrealism, Naturalism to Expressionism, Futurism to Dadaism), the booklet areas the ameliorations of tradition along the agitations of modernity (war, revolution, feminism, psychoanalysis). during this viewpoint, Modernism has to be understood extra extensively than just by way of its provocative works, experimental varieties, and singular careers. relatively, as Levenson demonstrates, Modernism may be seen because the emergence of an adversary tradition of the hot that relied on audiences in addition to artists, enemies in addition to supporters.
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