Killing the moonlight: modernism in Venice
Spanning the history of literature, art, and architecture--from John Ruskin, Henry James, and Ezra Pound to Manfredo Tafuri, Italo Calvino, Jeanette Winterson, and Robert Coover-- Killing the Moonlight tracks the pressures that modernity has placed on the legacy of romantic Venice, and the distinctive strains of aesthetic invention that resulted from the clash. In Venetian incarnations of modernism, the anachronistic urban fabric and vestigial sentiment that both the nation-state of Italy and t…
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- Full title :Killing the moonlight : modernism in Venice / Jennifer Scappettone.
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Spanning the history of literature, art, and architecture--from John Ruskin, Henry James, and Ezra Pound to Manfredo Tafuri, Italo Calvino, Jeanette Winterson, and Robert Coover-- Killing the Moonlight tracks the pressures that modernity has placed on the legacy of romantic Venice, and the distinctive strains of aesthetic invention that resulted from the clash. In Venetian incarnations of modernism, the anachronistic urban fabric and vestigial sentiment that both the nation-state of Italy and the historical avant-garde would cast off become incompletely assimilated parts of the new. Killing the Moonlight brings Venice into the geography of modernity as a living city rather than a metaphor for death, and presents the archipelago as a crucible for those seeking to define and transgress the conceptual limits of modernism. In strategic detours from the capitals of modernity, the book redrafts the confines of modernist culture in both geographical and historical terms.
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- Publication Date:©2014
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- Publisher(s):Columbia University Press
- Place of Publication:New York
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2014
The Physical Object
- Description:xvi, 440 pages, 20 color plates : : some color illustrations, 1 map ; : 25 cm.
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780231164320, 0231164327, 9780231164337, 0231164335
- oclc:ocn863199852
- LC Classification:PN56.3.V4
- Dewey Decimal:809/.9335845311
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