Modernism - Couverture souple

Walz, Robin

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1408264498 ISBN 13 : 9781408264492

Editeur : Pearson Education Limited, 2012

Synopsis

Robin Walz’s updated Modernism, now part of the Seminar Studies series, has been updated to include significant primary source material and features to make it more accessible for students returning to, or studying the topic for the first time.

The twentieth century was a period of seismic change on a global scale, witnessing two world wars, the rise and fall of communism, the establishment of a global economy, the beginnings of global warming and a complete reversal in the status of women in large parts of the world.

The modernist movements of the early twentieth century launched a cultural revolution without which the multi-media-driven world in which we live today would not have been possible.  Today modernism is enshrined in art galleries and university courses.  Its techniques of abstraction and montage, and its creative impulse to innovate and shock, are the stock-in-trade of commercial advertising, feature films, television and computer-generated graphics.

In this concise cultural history, Robin Walz vividly recaptures what was revolutionary about modernism.  He shows how an aesthetic concept, arising from a diversity of cultural movements, from Cubism and Bauhaus to Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art, and operating in different ways across the fields of art, literature, music, design and architecture, came to turn intellectual and cultural life and assumptions upside down, first in Europe and then around the world.

 From the nineteenth century origins of modernism to its postmodern legacies, this book will give the reader access to the big picture of modernism as a dynamic historical process and an unfinished project which still speaks to our times.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Robin Walz is Associate Professor of History at the University of Alaska Southeast. He has published books and articles on Modernism and aspects of popular culture in the twentieth century.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

In this concise introduction, intellectual historian Robin Walz shows how modernism constituted an avant-garde cultural revolution across the fields of art, literature, music, design and architecture in the twentieth century.

 

This comprehensive history traces the development of modernism from its nineteenth-century antecedents through its postmodern legacies, and guides the reader through the complex critical issues of the era. Walz explores:

 

-    The historical origins of modernism in Romanticism, Impressionism, Symbolism, primitivism and the 'perceptual revolution' in science, psychology and literature.

-    The development of ‘high modernism’ in Europe during the early twentieth century through such movements such as Cubism, Expressionism, Futurism, Dadaism, Constructivism, Surrealism, and the Bauhaus.

-   The international transformations of modernism since the mid-twentieth century, including the rise of mass consumerism, the neo-avant-garde, pop art and postmodernism.

 

This expanded second edition is now supported by a comprehensive documents section, chronology and who’s who, as well as a new colour plate section. Students of twentieth-century European history, intellectual history, art history and cultural studies will find this book an invaluable aid to understanding the development of this absorbing movement, which remains even today an unfinished project.

 

Robin Walz (Professor of History, University of Alaska) is an intellectual and cultural historian and the author of Pulp Surrealism: Insolent Popular Culture in Early Twentieth-Century Paris (2000).

 

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Pearson Education Limited
• Date d'édition: 2012
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1408264498
• ISBN 13: 9781408264492
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 2
• Nombre de pages: 204
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible