Putting Modernism Together: Literature, Music, and Painting, 1872-1927

by Daniel Albright

Book Overview

A powerful introduction to modernism and the creative arts it inspired.

How do you rationally connect the diverse literature, music, and painting of an age? Throughout the modernist era--which began roughly in 1872 with the Franco-Prussian War, climaxed with the Great War, and ended with a third catastrophe, the Great Depression--there was a special belligerence to this question. It was a cultural period that envisioned many different...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1421416433
• ISBN13: 9781421416434
• Release Date: June 2015
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.2" x 9.1"