Modernism – The Lure of Heresy - Couverture souple

Gay, Peter

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0393333965 ISBN 13 : 9780393333961

Editeur : W. W. Norton & Company, 2010

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Praise for Peter Gay:

Schnitzler's Century

'This is cultural history of the first order; and it is liberal and humane history at its very best.' David Cannadine

'[Gay] convey[s] with unusual efficiency what we hope to find in cultural history: the romance of the commonplace, and the shock of the old, not to mention the ordinariness of romance and the tedium on daily life, even in an age of rapid change.' Graham Robb,

New York Review of Books

'A hugely readable work that wears its learning lightly, so that it can be passed on to you. For a book that might have been as dry as we thought the Victorians were, there's hardly a dull moment.' Guardian

The Bourgeois Experience: Victoria to Freud

'Breathtakingly conceived... Few students of the 19th century have read as widely and as imaginatively as Gay. Few deploy erudition as elegantly as he does... Gay has been a master at treading the ground between the particular and the abstract, finding new particulars and revising prized abstractions.' Phyllis Rose, New York Times

'Has transformed our understanding of the origins and growth of middle-class life.... The strength of this book...is that through Gay's eyes we can get a warmer, more vivid and more accurate sense of the 'bourgeois experience' than has ever been available before.' Noel Malcolm, Sunday Telegraph

'One of the major historical enterprises of the decade...an enterprise requiring a daring and breadth of knowledge possessed by few other contemporary historians, and one which [Gay] has carried to its term with inexhaustible energy and patience and an exuberance of spirit.' New York Review of Books

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'Superbly researched and well recounted. The extent to which many [modernists] "sold out" to their wealthy patrons, adopting the values they once scorned, makes for some engrossing reading' Scotsman

In his most ambitious endeavour since Freud, acclaimed cultural historian Peter Gay traces and explores the rise of artistic Modernism, the cultural movement that heralded and shaped the modern world, dominating western high culture for over a century. He traces the revolutionary path of modernism from its Parisian origins to its emergence as the dominant cultural movement in world capitals such as Berlin and New York, resulting in a work unique in its breadth and brilliance.

Lavishly illustrated, Modernism is a superb achievement by one of our greatest historians.

'Highly readable, well-illustrated... an intelligent and exciting account of creative individuals and the times in which they worked...an enormous achievement' New Statesman

'Beautifully written, wide-ranging and psychologically acute, Modernism is a celebration of the subversive energies that decisively transformed art and culture in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. At once bracingly intelligent and elegiac, Gay's magisterial book is richly rewarding for anyone who wants to understand the fractured world we have all inherited' Stephen Greenblatt

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: W. W. Norton & Company
• Date d'édition: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0393333965
• ISBN 13: 9780393333961
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 640