Modern And Modernism: The Sovereignty Of The Artist 1885-1925
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At the turbulent crossroads of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, a radical reimagining of art, literature, and human expression erupted across Europe and America — and Frederick R. Karl's Modern and Modernism: The Sovereignty of the Artist 1885–1925 stands as one of the most authoritative and ambitious chronicles of that seismic cultural shift. Spanning four decades of unprecedented creative ferment, the work maps the intellectual and aesthetic terrain inhabited by the giants of the modernist movement — from Conrad and Joyce to Cézanne and Picasso — arguing that the artist's sovereign autonomy was not merely a stylistic preference but a defining philosophical stance against the encroaching forces of mass culture and industrial modernity. Karl, one of the foremost literary scholars of the twentieth century, presents a sweeping, interdisciplinary analysis that refuses to confine modernism within any single art form, instead illuminating the deep structural connections between literature, painting, music, and architecture. His prose is dense with intellectual rigour yet animated by a genuine passion for his subjects, drawing the reader into the daring interior worlds of artists who reshaped Western civilisation. A landmark work of cultural history, Modern and Modernism leaves one confronting a haunting question: if the sovereignty of the artist defined the modernist age, what does its erosion reveal about our own?
Author: Frederick R. Karl
Format: Hardback
Published: 1985, Atheneum
Genre: History of arts
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
Markings: Remainder mark
At the turbulent crossroads of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, a radical reimagining of art, literature, and human expression erupted across Europe and America — and Frederick R. Karl's Modern and Modernism: The Sovereignty of the Artist 1885–1925 stands as one of the most authoritative and ambitious chronicles of that seismic cultural shift. Spanning four decades of unprecedented creative ferment, the work maps the intellectual and aesthetic terrain inhabited by the giants of the modernist movement — from Conrad and Joyce to Cézanne and Picasso — arguing that the artist's sovereign autonomy was not merely a stylistic preference but a defining philosophical stance against the encroaching forces of mass culture and industrial modernity. Karl, one of the foremost literary scholars of the twentieth century, presents a sweeping, interdisciplinary analysis that refuses to confine modernism within any single art form, instead illuminating the deep structural connections between literature, painting, music, and architecture. His prose is dense with intellectual rigour yet animated by a genuine passion for his subjects, drawing the reader into the daring interior worlds of artists who reshaped Western civilisation. A landmark work of cultural history, Modern and Modernism leaves one confronting a haunting question: if the sovereignty of the artist defined the modernist age, what does its erosion reveal about our own?