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HISTORY OF A SHIVER
THE SUBLIME IMPUDENCE OF MODERNISM |
| By: |
Jed Rasula |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£51.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0199396299 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780199396290 |
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| Publisher: |
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS INC |
| Pages: |
368 |
| Description: |
A sweeping cultural history that draws on music, literature, painting, and film, History of a Shiver uncovers how art pioneered in the nineteenth century provided the foundation for modernist aesthetics. |
| Synopsis: |
An abrupt break in the more conventional modes of artistic expression, for many, marks the advent of modernism in the early twentieth century. However, as Jed Rasula's alternative history shows, modernist aesthetics owe a significant debt to techniques and styles pioneered and established throughout the nineteenth century. An ambitious inter-arts exploration of patterns between one generation and another form the through-line of History of a Shiver: the backdrop of Wagner's epic nineteenth-century operas illuminates the music of Arnold Schoenberg and the Viennese School, in addition to literary works by Marcel Proust, Robert Musil, and Ezra Pound; the collodion glass plates deployed by Victorian photographers reveal the debt of Dada and Man Ray's innovative photograms to an era associated with realism; the brass bands conducted by John Philip Sousa in the 1880s and 1890s form a blueprint for instrumentation that gave rise to jazz; and the French symbolist verse of Stephane Mallarme and |
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38 halftones |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
Oxford University Press Inc |
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