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Modernism (Very Short Introductions) (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for ModernismWhether we recognise it or not, virtually every aspect of our life today has been influenced in part by the aesthetic legacy of Modernism. In this Very Short Introduction Christopher Butler examines how and why Modernism began, explaining what it is and showing how it has gradually informed all aspects of 20th and 21st century life.
Full description- Publisher: Oxford University Press
- Published: 03 September 2010
- Format: Paperback 136 pages
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- Categories: Art History: c 1900 - | Styles: Modernist & Bauhaus | Styles: Conceptual Art | Literary Studies: General | Literary Studies: From C 1900 - | Philosophy: Aesthetics
- ISBN 13: 9780192804419 ISBN 10: 0192804413
- Sales rank: 89,647
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Full description for Modernism
Is a tower block, your unmade bed, your lavatory basin, or the bicycle chained to the gate next door a work of art? Why should a novel have a beginning, a middle, and an end; or even a story? Whether we recognise it or not, virtually every aspect of our life today has been influenced in part by the aesthetic legacy of Modernism. In this Very Short Introduction Christopher Butler examines how and why Modernism began, explaining what it is and showing how it has gradually informed all aspects of 20th and 21st century life. Butler considers several aspects of modernism including some modernist works; movements and notions of the avant garde; and the idea of 'progress' in art. Butler looks at modernist ideas of the self, subjectivity, irrationalism, people and machines, and political definitions of modernism as a whole.
