Cold Modernism: Literature, Fashion, Art

by Jessica Burstein

In Cold Modernism, Jessica Burstein explores various cultural facets of modernism, tying them into a fresh conceptual framework. Central to her analysis is the important premise that our current understanding of modernism is fundamentally incomplete. Reacting against "hot," libidinous, and psychology-centered modernism, Burstein asserts that "a constellation of modernist sensibility" has been left unacknowledged, one that laid the essential...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271053763
• ISBN13: 9780271053769
• Release Date: August 2012
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 2.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.9" x 9.7"