| Description |
xx, 632 pages ; 26 cm |
| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: Table of contents for Modernism : an anthology of sources and documents / edited by Vassiliki Kolocotroni, Jane Goldman, and Olga Taxidou. -- Bibliographic record and links to related information available from the Library of Congress catalog -- Information from electronic data provided by the publisher. May be incomplete or contain other coding. -- Introduction -- A note on presentation -- Part I: The Emergence of the Modern -- Ia: The modern in cultural, political and scientific thought -- 1. Karl Marx: From letter to Ruge, September 1843 -- 2. Karl Marx and Freidrich Engels: From The Communist Manifesto 1848 -- 3. Richard Wilhelm Wagner: From 'Art and Revolution' 1849 -- 4. Charles Darwin: From The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection 1859 -- 5. Johann Jakob Bachofen: From Mother Right 1861 -- 6. Friedrich Nietzsche: From Preface to Human, All Too Human 1878 -- 7. Max Nordau: From Degeneration 1883 -- 8. William Morris: From 'Useful Work versus Useless Toil' 1884 -- 9. H.P.B.: From The Secret Doctrine 1888 -- 10. J. G. Frazer: From The Golden Bough 1890-1915 -- 11. Gustave Le Bon: From The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind 1895 -- 12. Thorstein Veblen: From The Theory of the Leisure Class 1899 -- 13. Henry Adams: From The Education of Henry Adams 1907 -- 14. Sigmund Freud: From The Interpretation of Dreams 1900 -- 15. Georg Simmel: From 'The Metropolis and Mental Life' 1903 -- 16. August Bebel: From Woman Under Socialism 1904 -- 17. W. E. B. Dubois: From The Souls of Black Folk 1903 -- 18. Henri Bergson: From Creative Evolution 1907 -- 19. Wilhelm Worringer: From Abstraction and Empathy 1908 -- 20. Adolf Loos: From 'Ornament and Crime' 1908 -- 21. Karl Kraus: 'The Good Conduct Medal' 1909 -- 22. Millicent Garrett Fawcett: From 'Women's Suffrage' 1911 -- 23. Lou Andreas-Salome: From The Freud Journal of Lou Andreas-Salome 1912, 1913 -- 24. Oswald Spengler: From The Decline of the West 1918-22 -- Ib: Modern aesthetics -- 1. Edgar Allan Poe: From review of Nathanial Hawthorne's Twice-Told Tales 1842 -- 2. Walt Whitman: From Preface to Leaves of Grass 1855 -- 3. Gustave Flaubert: From letter to Mlle Leroyer de Chantepie, 18 March 1857 -- 4. Matthew Arnold: From 'On the Modern Element in Literature' 1857 -- 5. Charles Baudelaire: From 'The Painter of Modern Life' 1859-60 -- 6. Arthur Rimbaud: From letter to Paul Demeny, 15 May 1871 -- 7. John Ruskin: From Lectures on Art 1870 -- From Arartra Pentelici 1872 -- 8. Walter Pater: From Conclusion to The Renaissance [1873] 1893 -- 9. August Strindberg: From Preface to Miss Julie 1888 -- 10. Oscar Wilde: Preface to The Picture of Dorian Gray 1890 -- 11. Thomas Hardy: 'The Science of Fiction' 1891 -- 12. Stephane Mallarme: From 'Crisis in Poetry' 1886-95 -- 13. Paul Valery: From 'Introduction to the Method of Leonardo da Vinci' 1895 -- 14. Alfred Jarry: 'Preliminary Address at the First Performance of Ubi Roi, 10 December 1896' -- 15. Joseph Conrad: From Preface to The Nigger of the 'Narcissus' 1897 -- 16. Arthur Symons: From The Symbolist Movement in Literature 1899 -- 17. W. B. Yeats: From 'The Symbolism of Poetry' 1900 -- 18. Marcel Proust: From 'Days of Reading: I' 1905 -- 19. William Archer: From 'Henrik Ibsen: Philosopher or Poet' 1905 -- 20. Henry James: From 'The Art of Fiction' 1894 -- From Preface to The Princess Casamassima 1906 -- 21. Edward Gordon Craig: From 'The Actor and the uber-marionette' 1907 -- 22. Isadora Duncan: From My Life 1927 -- 23. George Bernard Shaw: From The Sanity of Art 1908 -- II: The Avant-Garde -- IIa. Formulations and declarations -- 1. Gustave Courbet: From Realist Manifesto 1855 -- 2. emile Zola: From 'Naturalism on the Stage' 1880 -- 3. Desmond MacCarthy: 'The Post-Impressionists' 1910 -- 4. T.E. Hulme: From 'Romanticism and Classicism' 1911 -- 5. Charlotte Perkins Gilman: From The Man-Made World or Our Androcentric Culture 1911 -- 6. Roger Fry: 'The French Group' 1912 -- 7. Clive Bell: 'The English Group' 1912 -- 8. Robert Delaunay: 'Light' 1912 -- 'Notes on the Construction of the Reality of Pure Painting' 1912 -- 9. Erik Satie: 'The Musician's Day' 1913 -- 'Some Notes on Modern Music' 1919 -- 10. Wyndham Lewis: From 'The Cubist Room' 1914 -- 11. Karl Kraus: From 'In These Great Times' 1914 -- 12. Richard Huelsenbeck: From 'Zurich 1916, as it really was' 1928 -- 13. Guillaume Apollinaire: 'Art and the War: Concerning an Allied Exhibition' 1916 -- Programme for Parade , 18 May 1917 -- 14. Antonio Gramsci: 'Marinetti the Revolutionary' 1916 -- 'Theatre and Cinema' 1921 -- 15. Victor Shklovsky: From 'Art as Technique' 1917 -- 16. John Reed: From Ten Days That Shook the World 1919 -- 17. 'A Member of the Audience: Storming the Winter Palace' 1920 -- 18. Georg Lukacs: From The Theory of the Novel 1920 -- 19. Leon Trotsky: From Literature and Revolution 1923 -- 20. Alexandra Kollontai: From 'Make Way for the Winged Eros' 1923 -- 21. Dziga Vertov: From 'A Kino-Eye Discussion' 1924 -- 22. Luis Buųel: 'Suburbs' 1923 -- 23. Vsevolod Meyerhold: From 'The Reconstruction of the Theatre' 1929 -- 24. Erwin Piscator: From 'Basic Principles of Sociological Drama' 1929 -- IIb: Manifestos -- 1. Futurism -- 1a. Filippo Tommaso Marinetti: 'The Founding and Manifesto of Futurism 1909' -- The Variety Theatre' 1913 -- 1b. Ilya Zdanevich and Mikhail Larionov: 'Why We Paint Ourselves: A Futurist Manifesto' 1913 -- 2. Mina Loy: 'Feminist Manifesto' 1914 -- 3. Cubism : Guillaume Apollinaire: From The Cubist Painters 1913 -- 4. Imagism : Preface to Some Imagist Poets 1915 -- 5. Expressionism : Wassily Kandinsky: From 'The Problem of Form' 1912 -- 6. Dada -- 6a. Tristan Tzara: From 'Dada Manifesto, 1918' -- 'Note on Art' 1917 -- 'Note on Negro Art' 1917 -- 6b. Kurt Shwitters: From Merz 1921 -- From 'Consistent Poetry' 1924 -- 'To All the Theatres of the World' 1926 -- 6c. George Grosz with Wieland Herzfelde: -- Library of Congress subject headings for this publication: Literature Philosophy, Aesthetics, History Philosophy |
| Summary |
Publisher description: From Bauhaus to Dada, from Virginia Woolf to John Dos Passos, the Modernist movement revolutionized the way we perceive, portray, and participate in the world. This landmark anthology is a comprehensive documentary resource for the study of Modernism, bringing together more than 150 key essays, articles, manifestos, and other writings of the political and aesthetic avant-garde between 1840 and 1950 |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Aesthetics.
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Art, Modern -- 19th century.
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Art, Modern -- 20th century.
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Intellectual life -- History -- 20th century.
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History -- Philosophy.
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Literature -- Philosophy.
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Modernism (Aesthetics)
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Modernism (Art)
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Modernism (Literature)
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| Author |
Goldman, Jane, 1960-
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Kolocotroni, Vassiliki.
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Taxidou, Olga.
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| LC no. |
98007889 |
| ISBN |
0226450732 (alk. paper) |
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0226450740 (paperback: alk. paper) |
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0748609733 (paperback: alk. paper) |
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0748609741 (alk. paper) |
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