Modernism: The Lure of Heresy from Baudelaire to Beckett and Beyond

by Peter Gay

Book Overview

Peter Gay's most ambitious endeavor since Freud explores the shocking modernist rebellion that, beginning in the 1840s, transformed art, literature, music, and film with its assault on traditional forms. Beginning his epic study with Baudelaire, whose lurid poetry scandalized French stalwarts, Gay traces the revolutionary path of modernism from its Parisian origins to its emergence as the dominant cultural movement in world capitals such as Berlin...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393052052
• ISBN13: 9780393052053
• Release Date: November 2007
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 640 Pages
• Weight: 2.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 6.6" x 9.4"