Modernism: The Lure of Heresy from Baudelaire to Beckett and Beyond

ISBN-13: 9780393052053 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 640 str.

Peter Gay

Opis

Peter Gay's most ambitious endeavor since Freud explores the shocking modernist rebellion that, beginning in the 1840s, transformed art, literature, music, and film with its assault on traditional forms. Beginning his epic study with Baudelaire, whose lurid poetry scandalized French stalwarts, Gay 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. A work unique in its breadth and brilliance, Modernism presents a thrilling pageant of heretics that includes (among others) Oscar Wilde, Pablo Picasso, and D. W. Griffiths; James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, and T. S. Eliot; Walter Gropius, Arnold Schoenberg, and (of course ) Andy Warhol. Finally, Gay examines the hostility of totalitarian regimes to modernist freedom and the role of Pop Art in sounding the death knell of a movement that dominated Western culture for 120 years. Lavishly illustrated, Modernism is a superlative achievement by one of our greatest historians.

O autorze

Peter Gay, 1923 in Berlin geboren, emigrierte 1939, als Jude von Verfolgung bedroht, in die Vereinigten Staaten. Er war Professor für Geschichte an der Yale University in New Haven und ist derzeit Direktor des Center for Scholars and Writers an der New York Public Library. Er ist Ehrenmitglied der Amerikanischen Psychoanalytischen Gesellschaft und gilt als einer der besten Kenner der deutsch-jüdischen Kultur. 1999 erhielt er den Geschwister-Scholl-Preis.