Introducing modernism : [a graphic guide] /: [a graphic guide]. (2010)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Chris Rodrigues & Chris Garratt.
• Other Names: Rodrigues, Chris; Garratt, Chris
• Contents: Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Realizing Modernism; What is Modernism?; Media High Profile; Keeping up with Fashion; Cultural Foundations of Modernism; What is the Difference between Modernism and Modernity?; Technologies of Time; Standard Time; Key Inventions of Modernity; The New Industrial Art; So ... How does Modernism Fit into All This?; An Experimentalist Attitude; Simultaneous Futurism; Architecture: Functionalist Modernism; Giedion's Bible; Sticking Things Together; Tatlin's Tower; How do we Recognize a Modernist Work?; The End of the Past; Reading Picasso ... ... And Reading SimilaritiesThe Pleasure of the Text?; How do the Arts Relate to Each Other?; Multi-Artform Performances; A Spirit of Modernist Cooperation; Avant-garde Film-making; Towards Atonality and Abstraction; Is There a Modernist Theory in Relation to Practice?; Structural Linguistics; The Relation of Modernism to Philosophy; Science and Sociology; What About Marx, Nietzsche and ...?; Cross-Currents of Influences; Literary Cross-overs; What is the Relation of Modernism to Primitivism?; Is Primitivism Ethnocentric?; Expressionist Primitivism; Primitivism in Literature. What is the Relation of Modernism to Psychoanalysis?The Primitivism of Sigmund Freud; Freud's Influence; How Did Freud "Filter Through"?; The Century's Greatest Listener ... ; Psychoanalysis and Surrealism; The Birth of Surrealism by Manifesto; "The Impossible Dream"; The "Dream Factory"; What is the Role of the City in Modernism?; The Crowd; The Human River ... ; ... and the Flâneur; The City as Narrative; Architects' Utopia; Why Are Modernists So Often "Exiles"?; Modernist Nomads; Exile Into Language; What is the Role of Élites and Avant-gardes in Modernism?; Is Avant-gardism "Pure" Modernism? The Cohesion of Avant-gardesPicasso's Alliances; What Politics Did the Modernists Espouse?; Reactionary Modernism?; Modernists on the Ultra-Right; The Political Errors of Modernism; Examples of Progressive Modernists; No One's Perfect ... ; How Does Modernism Relate to Mass Culture?; Against Mass Culture; Understanding Mass Culture; Cultural Industries; The Impact of the First World War; Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori; "And What For?"; What Would You Choose?; Crimes Against Humanity; Modernism Emigrates to America; Is America the Natural Home of Modernism? The Great Crash and Recovery ProgrammeModernism: the Un-American Activity; Entartete Kunst; Soviet Censorship; An Unholy Alliance; The Elite Defence of Modernism; Kitsch, High Culture and Abstract Expressionism; Hijacking Abstract Expressionism; Duchamp Descending a Staircase ... ; Pop Art or Neo-Dadaism?; The "End" of Modernism?; What is the Relation of Cinema to Modernism?; Against the Modernist Grain; European Art Cinema; Avant-garde Cinema: Surrealism; Expressionism in Films; Avant-garde Soviet Films; Reconsidering Hollywood; The New Wave; Breathless ... ; New Technologies = Postmodernism?
• Publisher Details: London Lanham, Md : Totem Books Distributed ... by National Book Network
• Publication Date: 2010
• Extent: 1 online resource (176 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 700.4/112; Modernism (Literature); Modernism (Art); Modernisme (Littérature); Modernisme (Art); ART -- Performance; ART -- Reference; Modernism (Art); Modernism (Literature)
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 1848319649; 9781848319646
• Related ISBNs: 9781848311169; 1848311168
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 174-175) and index.; Note: Print version record.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.