The Differentiation of Modernism: Postwar German Media Arts

by Larson Powell

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. The Differentiation of Modernism analyzes this phenomenon in German electronic media arts of the late modernist period (1945-80): in radio plays, film music, and electronic music. The first part of the book begins with a...

• 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"