Killing the Moonlight: Modernism in Venice

by Jennifer Scappettone

Book Overview

As a city that seems to float between Europe and Asia, removed by a lagoon from the tempos of terra firma, Venice has long seduced the Western imagination. Since the 1797 fall of the Venetian Republic, fantasies about the sinking city have engendered an elaborate series of romantic clich s, provoking conflicting responses: some modern artists and intellectuals embrace the resistance to modernity manifest in Venice's labyrinthine premodern form...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231164335
• ISBN13: 9780231164337
• Release Date: September 2016
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 464 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.7" x 8.9"