"Herwath Walden's Der Sturm ... the journal, gallery, performance venue, press, theater, bookstore, and art school in Berlin (1910-1932) ... has never before been the subject of a book-length study in English. In Four Metaphors of Modernism, Jenny Anger positions Der Sturm at th…
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Richard Tempest examines Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's evolution as a literary artist from his early autobiographical novel Love the Revolution to the experimental mega-saga The Red Wheel, and beyond. Tempest shows how this author gives his characters a presence so textured that we c…
Iconoclasm is not a barbaric act which takes place somewhere else but is instead a central strand of Anglo-American modernity. Our horror at the destruction of art derives in part from the fact that we did, and still do, that. This is most obviously true of England's iconoclasti…
Image and ideology in modern/postmodern discourse
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Rethinking imagination: culture and creativity
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Robert Brain traces the origins of artistic modernism to specific technologies of perception developed in late-nineteenth-century laboratories. Brain argues that the thriving fin-de-siècle field of "physiological aesthetics," which sought physiological explanations for the capac…
"This book is at once a detailed study of a range of individual filmmakers and an exploration of the modernism in which they are situated. It consists of fifty categories arranged in alphabetical order, among which are Allegory, Bricolage, Classicism, Contradiction, Desire, Dest…
Postmodernism and the re-reading of modernity
by Iversen, Margaret, Barker, Francis, Hulme, Peter
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The modernist movement has been regarded as representing a crisis point in Western thought. This volume looks at that crisis in terms of its reinterpretation of ideas concerning vitalism: the animation of the universe (whether spiritual or based in physical energies). Beginning …
Ohne Avantgarde gibt es keine Traditionen.Mit und an den Schriften des Künstlers und Denkers Bazon Brock unternimmt es das Buch, eine Theorie zu entwickeln, die die Avantgarde als Schöpferin von Traditionen ausweist. Im Gegensatz zu den bekannten Ansätzen, die in den verschieden…
"Dialectic of Romanticism argues that out of the European dialectic of romanticism and enlightenment a new dialectic of modernity is emerging in the New World - one which points beyond modernism and postmodernism."--Jacket.
In Glamour in Six Dimensions Judith Brown looks at the historical and aesthetic roots of glamour in the early decades of the twentieth century, arguing that glamour is the defining aesthetic of modernism. In the clean lines of modernism she finds the ideal conditions for glamour…