Modernism: A Very Short Introduction /
by Christopher Butler
- United States: Oxford University Press, 2010
- p.117
Modernism: A Very Short Introduction examines how and why modernism began, what it is, how it has gradually informed all aspects of 20th and 21st century life. Modernism expressed a new way of thinking of the self, subjectivity, irrationalism, people and machines, and politics. Is a tower block, an unmade bed, a lavatory basin, or the bicycle chained to a gate 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. What does modernism mean today?
9780192804419
Arts Philosophy Modernism in Arts Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art History of Art Literary Theory and Cultural Studies 19th-Century Philosophy 20th-Century Philosophy
Arts, Fine and Decorative Arts, Special Topics in Arts