Peter Gay

Broschiertes Buch

Modernism

The Lure of Heresy - From Baudelaire to Beckett and Beyond

Beschreibung

In his most ambitious endeavour since Freud, acclaimed cultural historian Peter Gay traces and explores the rise of Modernism in the arts, the cultural movement that heralded and shaped the modern world, dominating western high culture for over a century.

Autor

Peter Gay is Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale University and former director of the New York Public Library's Center for Scholars and Writers. He is 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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Random House UK / Vintage, London
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 542445
• Seitenzahl: 656
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Dezember 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 197mm x 129mm x 47mm
• Gewicht: 477g
• ISBN-13: 9780099441960
• ISBN-10: 0099441969
• Artikelnr.: 23555284

Rezensionen

Beautifully written, wide-ranging and psychologically acute, Modernism: The Lure of Heresy is a celebration of the subversive energies that decisively transformed art and culture in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. At once bracingly intelligent and elegiac, Gay's magisterial book is richly rewarding for anyone who wants to understand the fractured world we have all inherited Stephen Greenblatt