{"product_id":"modernist-america-art-music-movies-and-the-globalization-of-american-culture-9780300181739","title":"Modernist America  Art Music Movies and the","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe United States not only plays a large role in shaping international entertainment and tastes, it is also a consumer of foreign intellectual and artistic influences. This title reveals how the American artists, novelists, composers, jazz musicians, and filmmakers who were part of the Modernist movement were greatly influenced by outside ideas.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“[T]here is much to enjoy here . . . a rousing jaunt through a period of remarkable upheavals in entertainment and the arts.”—\u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e * The Wall Street Journal *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Debates over high and low art, and the avant-garde vs. popular culture, rage throughout this absorbing volume.”—\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e * Publishers Weekly  *\u003cbr\u003e\"Richard Pells's book leaps, lunges, gallops, and, once in a while, pirouettes its way toward something very close toa unified field theory of twentieth-century American culture.\"—Gene Seymour, \u003ci\u003eBookforum\u003c\/i\u003e -- Gene Seymour * Bookforum *\u003cbr\u003e\"Pells writes with grace and accessibility about big ideas, and he’s a master of synthesizing disparate materials and figures, from Frank Lloyd Wright to Miles Davis to Robert Altman. This is among the most lively multidisciplinary arts studies I’ve ever read, especially in its focus on cross-pollination between the U.S. and other parts of the world.\" –Chris Vognar, \u003ci\u003eDallas Morning News \u003c\/i\u003eArts Blog -- Chris Vognar * Dallas Morning News *\u003cbr\u003e“Pells serves as an engagingly interesting and learned guide . . . Pells’ reading of American art, music, and movies is at its freshest and is most destabilizing of the easy generalities that we wrap around the products of American culture.” —Daniel T. Rodgers,\u003ci\u003e Reviews in American History\u003c\/i\u003e -- Daniel T. Rodgers * Reviews in American History *\u003cbr\u003e“[Pells’] book crackles with intellectual energy and showcases a formidable body of knowledge that leaps across all kinds of barriers. . . . Pells tackles big ideas in prose clear and accessible enough to make you forget you’re reading an academic text. He can talk John Wayne and Igor Stravinsky. You could say he’s a pretty modern guy.” —Chris Vognar, \u003ci\u003eDallas Morning News\u003c\/i\u003e -- Chris Vognar * Dallas Morning News *","brand":"Yale University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51359010455895,"sku":"9780300181739","price":38.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780300181739.jpg?v=1754123213","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/modernist-america-art-music-movies-and-the-globalization-of-american-culture-9780300181739","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}