Modern Times, Modern Places
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Markings: No markings
A sweeping work of cultural criticism, Modern Times, Modern Places presents a vast and ambitious survey of how modernity — as an idea, an experience, and an aesthetic — has been expressed across art, literature, music, and architecture from the late nineteenth century to the present day. Peter Conrad argues that modernity is not merely a historical period but a state of mind, one that artists and thinkers across the globe have grappled with in profoundly different yet interconnected ways. Ranging from Nietzsche to Nabokov, from the Eiffel Tower to the atomic bomb, the work chronicles the restless human effort to make sense of a world transformed by technology, urbanization, and the collapse of traditional certainties. Conrad's prose is richly allusive and intellectually dazzling, weaving together hundreds of cultural touchstones into a single, coherent narrative about the modern condition. The result is an authoritative and exhilarating panorama that illustrates just how deeply the anxieties and exhilarations of modern life have shaped the art we create and the places we inhabit.
Author: Peter Conrad
Format: Hardback
Published: 1999, Thames and Hudson
Genre: History of arts
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Markings: No markings
A sweeping work of cultural criticism, Modern Times, Modern Places presents a vast and ambitious survey of how modernity — as an idea, an experience, and an aesthetic — has been expressed across art, literature, music, and architecture from the late nineteenth century to the present day. Peter Conrad argues that modernity is not merely a historical period but a state of mind, one that artists and thinkers across the globe have grappled with in profoundly different yet interconnected ways. Ranging from Nietzsche to Nabokov, from the Eiffel Tower to the atomic bomb, the work chronicles the restless human effort to make sense of a world transformed by technology, urbanization, and the collapse of traditional certainties. Conrad's prose is richly allusive and intellectually dazzling, weaving together hundreds of cultural touchstones into a single, coherent narrative about the modern condition. The result is an authoritative and exhilarating panorama that illustrates just how deeply the anxieties and exhilarations of modern life have shaped the art we create and the places we inhabit.