Modernism's Second Act: A Cultural Narrative (Palgrave Pivot) - Hardcover

Nadel, Ira

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1137302224 ISBN 13: 9781137302229

Verlag: Palgrave Pivot, 2012

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Book by Nadel Ira

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"This book explores the connection between experimental aesthetics and reactionary politics through the work of individual artists and writers examining the exchange between modernism and political action linking modernism and authoritarianism in Europe between 1930 and 1960. It links modernism with politics and the possible complicity between forms of political totalitarianism and realignment of the modernist project. Nadel has written a useful and very readable book about an era of modernism that has not hitherto attracted sufficient scholarly curiosity." - Alec Marsh, Muhlenberg College, USA

Reseña del editor

European modernism underwent a massive change from 1930 to 1960, as war altered the cultural landscape. This account of artists and writers in France and England explores how modernism survived under authoritarianism, whether Fascism, National Socialism, or Stalinism, and how these artists endured by balancing complicity and resistance. From Picasso and Pound to Stein and Woolf - all engaged with artistic survival during this period - their tenuous creative and personal lives come under scrutiny. Nadel also considers European writers like Arthur Koestler, Herman Broch, and Margurite Dueras within the larger frame of the survival of modernism. The changes experienced by modernist artists and the impact of the atomic bomb during the mid-twentieth century propelled modernism through its second act and into postmodernism.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Palgrave Pivot
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1137302224
• ISBN 13: 9781137302229
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 134