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Peyman Akhgar,

Mohsen Foroughi

Mohsen Foroughi (1907-1983) was one of the most important and influential Iranian architects of the modern era. Standing at the intersection between modernism, tradition, and the Beaux-Arts, Foroughi's wo…

Modernist Aesthetics in Transition

How did German aesthetic values change during the Weimar Republic and after its immediate collapse at the beginning of the National Socialist period ? Contrary to conventional narratives that depict moder…

Tony Ortega

Jazz For Young Moderns (Remaster)

Modernist Icons

Eine Hommage an die Moderne: Architektur, Interieur und Designs aus der Mitte des 20. Jahrhunderts bis heute. Kaum eine Epoche hat unsere Idee davon, wie wir wohnen und leben möchten, so sehr geprägt wie …

Elaine Sisson,

Performing Modernity

This book is an exploration of metropolitan bohemian and counter-cultural movements in theatre, design and popular culture in the Irish Free State.Were there flappers in Ireland? Was there really a Cabare…

Alice T Friedman

Queer Moderns

"A richly illustrated history of the glittering world of queer artistic life in the 1920s and '30sIn Queer Modernism, Alice Friedman tells the fascinating story of the queer avant-garde of the 1920s …

Richard Aste, Lisa Small, Cora Michael

French Moderns

French Moderns, which features 59 works from the Brooklyn Museum's renowned European art collection, celebrates France as the artistic centre of international modernism from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-…

Robert Glück

Jack the Modernist

"This novel is set in San Francisco in 1981, a world of loss that doesn't add up. Bob loves Jack, Joe-Toe does too, and Phyllis loses her son. Bob goes to the baths, gossips on the phone, goes to a b…

Johanna Frymoyer

Modernist Movements

Topic theory examines the lexicon of conventions that emerged in the late eighteenth century through which composers evoked dances, marches, hunting, the pastoral, and the supernatural. While scholars hav…

The Hypercontemporary Novel in Portugal

The first volume of critical essays on the contemporary Portuguese novel in English, this book theorizes the concept of the 'hypercontemporary' as a way of reading the novel after its postmodern period.Th…

Stef Aupers, Dick Houtman, Galen Watts

New Religious Movements and the Romantic Spirit of Modernity

Although new religious movements (NRMs) are characterized as diverse and unique, this Element analyzes the cultural logic underlying this apparent diversity from a sociological approach. Section 1 demonst…

Kathryn Brown

Dialogues with Degas

Dialogues with Degas demonstrates the ongoing relevance of Edgar Degas to 20th- and 21st-century ideas and art practices.The first in-depth examination of this major artist's impact on contemporary art, t…

Friederike Hohenstein, Helen Heitmann

Wie geht modernes Arbeiten in produzierenden Betrieben?

Was bedeutet New Work für die Produktion?Fachkräftemangel - dieses Wort ist prägend, wenn man sich die Entwicklung der Industrie der letzten Jahre anschaut. Zwar können Tätigkeiten mit einem hohen Automat…

Medardo Rosso: Pioneer of Modern Sculpture

This volume compiles sculptures, photographs, drawings, writings and a selection of letters by Italian sculptor Medardo Rosso (1858-1928), a pioneer of modern sculpture hailed as a precursor to Italian fu…

Gill Saunders

Screenprints

A celebration of the rich twentieth and twenty-first-century tradition of screenprinting as a means of artistic expression, from its commercial origins in 1920s America to the limited-edition screenprints…

T J Clark

Those Passions

Is art obliged to engage with politics? If so, how? By taking sides in political struggle? Or by giving form to the deeper patterns of experience--the raw materials of "society"--from which poli…

Sebastian Smee

Paris in Ruins

Pulitzer-winner Sebastian Smee relives the remarkable birth of Impressionism from the ashes of warThe perfect Christmas gift for art lovers'Enjoyable... a fine portrait not only of impressionism but the s…

Geoff Eley

The Modernist Wish

As the 20th century recedes, how should its history be written? The 1920s and 1930s were a time of paradox, of great conflict and contradiction. If those years were the crucible of a new metropolitan mode…

Steven Brower

Roy Kuhlman: Reluctant Modernist

The legacy of Grove Press is well known within literary circles: how Barney Rosset bought a fledgling but failing publishing company in the early 1950s and changed the world of letters in America, and per…