TY  - BOOK
AU  - Butler, Christopher
TI  - Modernism: A Very Short Introduction 
SN  - 9780192804419
U1  - 700.4112 
PY  - 2010///
CY  - United States
PB  -  Oxford University Press
KW  - Arts
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Modernism in Arts
KW  -  Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art
KW  - History of Art
KW  - Literary Theory and Cultural Studies
KW  - 19th-Century Philosophy
KW  - 20th-Century Philosophy
KW  - Arts, Fine and Decorative Arts, Special Topics in Arts
N2  - 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?
ER  -