Modern And Modernism: The Sovereignty Of The Artist 1885-1925
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Yellowed
Markings: Remainder mark
At the turbulent crossroads of art, literature, and revolution, Modern and Modernism: The Sovereignty of the Artist 1885–1925 chronicles one of the most electrifying periods in Western cultural history — a four-decade span that witnessed the simultaneous emergence of Kafka, Woolf, Picasso, Kandinsky, Freud, Stravinsky, and Proust, among dozens of others. Frederick R. Karl presents a sweeping, meticulously researched panorama of the Modernist movement, arguing that the artist's claim to absolute creative sovereignty was not merely an aesthetic stance but a radical act of self-determination against the collapsing certainties of the 19th century. Karl's formidable scholarly range and authoritative voice cut across disciplines — literature, painting, music, and psychoanalysis — to illustrate how these visionaries collectively dismantled inherited traditions and rebuilt culture in their own image. Written with intellectual rigour and critical confidence, this magisterial study draws together the lives and innovations of an extraordinary constellation of figures to reveal the hidden connective tissue of the Modern age. For anyone seeking to understand why the world looks, sounds, and reads the way it does today, this landmark work raises a question that lingers long after the final page: was the sovereignty of the artist a liberation — or a Beautiful act of war?
Author: Frederick R. Karl
Format: Hardback
Genre: History of arts
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Yellowed
Markings: Remainder mark
At the turbulent crossroads of art, literature, and revolution, Modern and Modernism: The Sovereignty of the Artist 1885–1925 chronicles one of the most electrifying periods in Western cultural history — a four-decade span that witnessed the simultaneous emergence of Kafka, Woolf, Picasso, Kandinsky, Freud, Stravinsky, and Proust, among dozens of others. Frederick R. Karl presents a sweeping, meticulously researched panorama of the Modernist movement, arguing that the artist's claim to absolute creative sovereignty was not merely an aesthetic stance but a radical act of self-determination against the collapsing certainties of the 19th century. Karl's formidable scholarly range and authoritative voice cut across disciplines — literature, painting, music, and psychoanalysis — to illustrate how these visionaries collectively dismantled inherited traditions and rebuilt culture in their own image. Written with intellectual rigour and critical confidence, this magisterial study draws together the lives and innovations of an extraordinary constellation of figures to reveal the hidden connective tissue of the Modern age. For anyone seeking to understand why the world looks, sounds, and reads the way it does today, this landmark work raises a question that lingers long after the final page: was the sovereignty of the artist a liberation — or a Beautiful act of war?