Modernism: The Lure of Heresy : from Baudelaire to Beckett and Beyond
- ISBN-10
- 0393052052
- ISBN-13
- 9780393052053
- Series
- Modernism
- Category
- Art
- Pages
- 610
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2008
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton & Company
- Authors
- Peter Gay, Sterling Professor of History Peter Gay
Description
Traces the rise of Modernism in the arts from its inception in the mid-nineteenth century to its end in the wake of the development of Pop Art, analyzing its influences on the fields of literature, poetry, music, and other art forms and profiling key figures.
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