Modernism – Bücher, CDs, LPs und mehr, Seite 7

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 …

Civilisation - The Complete Series (1969) (UK Import)

Kenneth Clarke's eloquent and deeply personal documentary series exploring the cultural heritage of the western world, from the collapse of the Roman Empire until the birth of modernism, was groundbreakin…

Christopher Watkin

The State of Nature and the Shaping of Modernity

""By exploring the distinct accounts of the state of nature in the writing of Hobbes, Locke and Rousseau, this book offers a fresh perspective on some of the most pressing debates of our time, s…

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…

Celeste Marcus

Chaim Soutine

A revelatory biography of the Jewish expressionist painter that corrects the myths surrounding his work and proves his importance to the contemporary art world "It's not often that an art history boo…

Frouke van Dijke

Impressionist Paris

Magnificent publication on the depiction of Paris by the French impressionists such as Monet, Cassatt, Renoir and DegasIn 1867, Claude Monet painted three iconic views of Paris from the balcony of the Lou…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…