Cambridge History of Modernism

Bibliographic Data

ID23192743
EditorsVincent Sherry
Year2017
Publication date2017-01-01
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueCambridge History of Modernism (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherCambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1017/9781139540902
ISBN9781139540902
Open LibraryOL34562064M
LanguageEN
Citations received8
References cited313

The Cambridge History of Modernism is the first comprehensive history of modernism in the distinguished Cambridge Histories collection. It identifies a distinctive temperament of 'modernism' within the 'modern' period, establishing the circumstances of modernized life as the ground and warrant for an art that becomes 'modernist' by virtue of its demonstrably self-conscious involvement in this modern condition. Following this sensibility from the end of the nineteenth century to the middle of the twentieth, tracking its manifestations across pan-European and transatlantic locations, the forty-three chapters offer a remarkable combination of breadth and focus. Prominent scholars of modernism provide analytical narratives of its literature, music, visual arts, architecture, philosophy, and science, offering circumstantial accounts of its diverse personnel in their many settings. These historically informed readings offer definitive accounts of the major work of twentieth-century cultural history and provide a new cornerstone for the study of modernism in the current century.

Arts and society · Ästhetik · History · History and criticism · Künste · Literatur · Literature · Modern Literature · Modern movement (Architecture) · Moderne · Modernism (Aesthetics) · Modernism (art) · Modernism (Literature) · Modernism (music)