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Modernism: The Basics provides an accessible overview of the study of modernism in its global dimensions. Examining the key concepts, history and varied forms of the field, it guides the reader through the major approaches, outlining key debates, to answer such questions as:

• What is modernism?
• How did modernism begin?
• Has modernism developed differently in different media?
• How is it related to postmodernism and postcolonialism?
• How have politics, urbanization and new technologies...

The modernist avant-garde used manifestos to outline their ideas, cultural programs and political agendas. Yet the manifesto, as a document of revolutionary change and a formative genre of modernism, has heretofore received little critical attention. This 2007 study reappraises the central role of manifestos in shaping the modernist movement by investigating twentieth-century manifestos from Europe and the Black Atlantic. Manifestos by writers from the imperial metropolis and the colonial 'periphery' drew very different emphases in their recasting of histories and experiences of modernity....

Modernism: The Basics provides an accessible overview of the study of Modernism in its global dimensions. Examining the key concepts, history and varied forms of the field it guides the reader through the major approaches, outlining key debates, to answer such questions as:

- What is modernism?

- How did modernism begin?

- Has modernism developed differently in different media?

- How is it related to postmodernism and postcolonialism?

- How have politics, urbanization and new technologies affected modernism?

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The modernist avant-garde used manifestos to outline their ideas, cultural programs and political agendas. Yet the manifesto, as a document of revolutionary change and a formative genre of modernism, has heretofore received little critical attention. This 2007 study reappraises the central role of manifestos in shaping the modernist movement by investigating twentieth-century manifestos from Europe and the Black Atlantic. Manifestos by writers from the imperial metropolis and the colonial 'periphery' drew very different emphases in their recasting of histories and experiences of modernity....