From Library Journal:
Noted scholar and critic Karl here spreads a wide net to consider Avante-Garde, Modern, and Modernism, and discusses with flair and control these ongoing movements and the aesthetics/cultures they have given us in art, music, literature, science, dance, psychoanalysis, etc. Among the creative innovators he includes are Picasso, Joyce, Stravinsky, Baudelaire, Schoenberg, Kandinsky, Yeats, Faulkner, Woolf, Wagner, Kafka, Pollock, Conrad. Karl's broad thesis is that Modern and Modernism "are characterized by their languages." In painting he finds innovations, dynamic lines, shapes, masses; in music, fresh harmonic sequences, unusual sounds, groupings, progressions; in literature, strikingly new narrative devices. This effort to understand Modernism historically is a tour de force . Glenn O. Carey, English Dept., Eastern Kentucky Univ., Richmond
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From Publishers Weekly:
Modernist painters, writers, poets and composers are feared, maintains the author of Joseph Conrad: The Three Lives, because their creativity demands a reorientation of feeling and thinking that may threaten social cohesion. PW called this a "brilliant, dense cultural history." Photos.
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