Description
Book SynopsisGoing beyond merely explaining how the artists in these genres achieved their peculiar effects, he presents challenging new analyses of telling craft details which help students and scholars come to know more fully this bold age of aesthetic extremism.
Trade ReviewScholarly and impressive... Such a thorough consideration of the interconnectedness of modernism illuminates how truly revolutionary this artistic movement was. Choice
Table of ContentsList of Illustrations
Introduction. Modernist Transvaluation
I. Two Originary Texts
1. Baudelaire and Symbolism
2. Nietzsche and the Dionysiac
II. Isms
3. Impressionism
4. Expressionism
5. Futurism
6. Cubism
7. Abstractionism
8. Primitivism
9. Imagism
10. Neoclassicism
11. Dadaism
12. Surrealism
13. Aestheticism
14. Corporealism
15. Totalizing Art
16. Communism, Fascism, and Later Modernism
Epilogue. The End of Modernism?
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