Modernism
The Lure of Heresy
Published on 6. May 2013
640 pages
978-0-393-34759-3 (ISBN)
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"Rich, learned, briskly written, maddening yet necessary study.”—Lee Siegel, New York Times Book Review
Peter Gay explores the shocking modernist rebellion that, beginning in the 1840s, transformed art, literature, music, and film. Modernism presents a thrilling pageant of heretics that includes Oscar Wilde, Pablo Picasso, D. W. Griffiths, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, T. S. Eliot, Walter Gropius, Arnold Schoenberg, and (of course!) Andy Warhol.More details
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Peter Gay (1923?2015) was the author of more than twenty-five books, including the National Book Award winner The Enlightenment, the best-selling Weimar Culture, and the widely translated Freud: A Life for Our Time.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Preface
- A CLIMATE FOR MODERNISM
- "Make it New!"
- Misreading Modernism
- An Array of Prerequisites
- Part One: FOUNDERS
- 1. PROFESSIONAL OUTSIDERS
- The Heroism of Modern Life
- Art for Artists' Sake
- 2. IRRECONCILABLES AND IMPRESARIOS
- 1900
- A New Way of Seeing
- Middlemen as Pedagogues
- Part Two: CLASSICS
- 3. PAINTING AND SCULPTURE-THE MADNESS OF THE UNEXPECTED
- Self-Absorption: Expressive Inwardness
- Self-Absorption: The Germans
- Mystical Modernism
- Anarchists and Authoritarians
- Picasso: The One-Man Band
- L.H.O.O.Q.
- Anti-Mimesis
- 4. PROSE AND POETRY-INTERMITTENCES OF THE HEART
- The New Fiction
- Defying Mr. Bennett
- Four Modern Masters
- Kafka
- The Poet of Poets
- 5. MUSIC AND DANCE-THE LIBERATION OF SOUND
- Overtures
- Modernists: Pacesetters
- Modernists: Arnold Schoenberg
- Modernists: Igor Stravinsky
- Lesser Titans
- The Balanchine Era
- 6. ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN-MACHINERY, A NEW FACTOR IN HUMAN AFFAIRS
- "There's nothing more important than architecture"
- "A house is a machine for living in"
- "Good proportions and practical simplicity"
- "Hitler is my best friend"
- "Beauty waiting for us"
- 7. DRAMA AND MOVIES-THE HUMAN ELEMENT
- "Merdre!"
- An Autobiographer and Others
- The New Man
- The Only All-Modern Art
- Part Three: ENDINGS
- 8. ECCENTRICS AND BARBARIANS
- Anti-Modern Modernists: After Strange Gods
- Anti-Modern Modernists: A Local Genius
- Anti-Modern Modernists: A Nordic Psychologist
- Barbarians: Hitler's Germany
- Barbarians: Stalin's Soviet Union
- Barbarians: Mussolini's Italy
- 9. LIFE AFTER DEATH?
- Clearing the Slate
- An Age of Ingenuity
- Success
- Signs of Life
- CODA: AND GEHRY AT BILBAO
- Notes
- Bibliographical Essay
- Acknowledgments
- Credits
- Index
- More praise for Modernism
- Copyright
- Other Books by Peter Gay
