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Pages: 218
Authors: Andrea Gogröf-Voorhees
Categories: Literary Criticism
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Defining Modernism investigates the intellectual connections among three leading nineteenth-century European modernists - Baudelaire, Nietzsche, and Richard Wag
The Concept of Modernism
Language: en
Pages: 278
Authors: Astradur Eysteinsson
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 1990 - Publisher: Cornell University Press

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The term "modernism" is central to any discussion of twentieth-century literature and critical theory. Astradur Eysteinsson here maintains that the concept of m
Inventing American Modernism
Language: en
Pages: 300
Authors: Jill E. Pearlman
Categories: Architecture
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007 - Publisher: University of Virginia Press

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"In this book Jill Pearlman argues that Gropius did not effect changes alone and, further, that the Harvard Graduate School of Design was not merely an offshoot
Modernism
Language: en
Pages: 84
Authors: Charles Harrison
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 1997 - Publisher: Tate Gallery Publishing Limited

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Modernism is used generally to convey a faith in progress and a healthy scepticism for received ideas and traditional values. Harrison looks at modernism in ord
Edgar Degas
Language: en
Pages: 71
Authors: Jennifer R. Gross
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003-01 - Publisher: Yale University Press

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Through his representation of modern subjects such as ballet dancers and race horses, his constant questioning of traditional artistic practices, and his vital