Books written by Modris Eksteins
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Rites of Spring: The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age
Named "One of the 100 best books ever published in Canada" (The Literary Review of Canada), Rites of Spring is a brilliant and captivating work of cultural history from the internationally acclaimed scholar and writer Modris Eksteins.
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Walking Since Daybreak: A Story of Eastern Europe, World War II, and the Heart of Our Century
Drawing on the personal experiences of members of the his own family, this poignant history of the Baltic nations describes their brief independence after World War I, the devastation of Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia during World War II, ...
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Rites of Spring: The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age
Looks at the origins and impact of World War I, discusses the premiere of Stravinsky's ballet, and analyzes public opinion of the period.
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Solar Dance: Genius, Forgery and the Crisis of Truth in the Modern Age
In Solar Dance, acclaimed writer and scholar Modris Eksteins uses Vincent van Gogh as his lens for this brilliant survey of Western culture and politics in the last century.
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Walking Since Daybreak: A Story of Eastern Europe, World War II, and the Heart of Our Century
On Vlasov, see Tolstoy, Victims of Yalta, chapter 12; Mark R. Elliott, Pawns of Yalta: Soviet Refugees and America's Role in Their Repatriation (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1982), 84–97; and Reitlinger, House Built on Sand, ...
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Solar Dance
... Van Gogh: Criticism and Response,” Art Bulletin, 68, no. 1 (March 1986): 94. 8. Fred Leeman, “Van Gogh's Posthumous Rise to Fame in the Low Countries— Holland and Belgium,” in Georg-W. Költzsch and Ronald de Leeuw, eds., Vincent van Gogh ...
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Solar Dance: Van Gogh, Forgery, and the Eclipse of Certainty
In Modris Eksteins’s hands, the interlocking stories of Vincent van Gogh and art dealer Otto Wacker reveal the origins of the fundamental uncertainty that is the hallmark of the modern era.
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Solar Dance: Genius, Forgery and the Crisis of Truth in the Modern Age
Solar Dance is a penetrating examination of legitimacy and truth, fakery and pretence--highly relevant to all of us today.