The Differentiation of Modernism: Postwar German Media Arts

by Larson Powell

The Differentiation of Modernism analyzes the phenomenon of intermediality in German radio plays, film music, and electronic music of the late modernist period (1945-1980).

After 1945, the purist "medium specificity" of high modernism increasingly yielded to the mixed forms of intermediality. Theodor Adorno dubbed this development a "Verfransung," or "fraying of boundaries," between the arts. TheDifferentiation of Modernism analyzes this phenomenon...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1571135723
• ISBN13: 9781571135728
• Release Date: December 2013
• Publisher: Camden House (NY)
• Length: 262 Pages
• Weight: 1.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"