Modernism: The Lure of Heresy by Peter Gay, ISBN-13: 978-0393333961

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Modernism: The Lure of Heresy by Peter Gay, ISBN-13: 978-0393333961

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• Publisher: ‎ W. W. Norton & Company; Illustrated edition (August 16, 2010)
• Language: ‎ English
• 640 pages
• ISBN-10: ‎ 9780393333961
• ISBN-13: ‎ 978-0393333961

“Rich, learned, briskly written, maddening yet necessary study.”―Lee Siegel, New York Times Book Review

Putting a Freudian view of life as an arena of conflict at the center of a view of modernism, this outspoken study tracks the avant-garde across a wide array of high culture—literature, music and dance, painting and sculpture, architecture and film. Conventional Victorians, according to Gay, found the belief in art for art’s sake of libertine and aesthete Oscar Wilde as much a perversion as his homosexuality. But even fans often get it wrong, says Gay, embracing Edvard Munch’s most famous painting, The Scream, as the quintessential symbol of modern angst, while Munch meant his nightmarish vision as a confession of his own inner state. And thanks to generous patrons, the oeuvre of anti-artist Marcel Duchamp, an enemy of museums, is featured prominently at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Modernism isn’t a single style, Gay shows: in literature, Ulysses‘s wordy, sensual world stands in direct opposition to Virginia Woolf’s in Mrs. Dalloway, spare and cool. This latest from Gay (National Book Award winner for The Enlightenment) isn’t a monumental or definitive treatise but a highly personal, arbitrary and invigorating collection of mini-essays that view a variety of artistic works from a fresh perspective.

Peter Gay (1923―2015) was the author of more than twenty-five books, including the National Book Award winner The Enlightenment, the best-selling Weimar Culture, and the widely translated Freud: A Life for Our Time.

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