Modern and Modernism: The Sovereignty of the Artist, 1885-1925 - Softcover

Karl, Frederick

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0689115644 ISBN 13: 9780689115646

Publisher: Atheneum, 1985

Synopsis

Looks at modernism in art, literature, and music, examines the opposition it attracted, and discusses the intellectual movements associated with the avant-garde

About this title

From Library Journal:

Noted scholar and critic Karl here spreads a wide net to consider Avante-Garde, Modern, and Modernism, and discusses with flair and control these ongoing movements and the aesthetics/cultures they have given us in art, music, literature, science, dance, psychoanalysis, etc. Among the creative innovators he includes are Picasso, Joyce, Stravinsky, Baudelaire, Schoenberg, Kandinsky, Yeats, Faulkner, Woolf, Wagner, Kafka, Pollock, Conrad. Karl's broad thesis is that Modern and Modernism "are characterized by their languages." In painting he finds innovations, dynamic lines, shapes, masses; in music, fresh harmonic sequences, unusual sounds, groupings, progressions; in literature, strikingly new narrative devices. This effort to understand Modernism historically is a tour de force . Glenn O. Carey, English Dept., Eastern Kentucky Univ., Richmond
Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Publishers Weekly:

Modernist painters, writers, poets and composers are feared, maintains the author of Joseph Conrad: The Three Lives, because their creativity demands a reorientation of feeling and thinking that may threaten social cohesion. PW called this a "brilliant, dense cultural history." Photos.
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Atheneum
• Publication date: 1985
• ISBN 10: 0689115644
• ISBN 13: 9780689115646
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 456