Preface to Modernism

Author: Art Berman
Paper – $24
978-0-252-06391-6
Publication Date
Paperback: 07/01/1994
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About the Book

Traces the conceptual lineage of modernism, examining its evolution in Western art andliterature through empiricism, idealism, and romanticism. Berman demonstrates howmodern social, political, and scientific developments -- including capitalism, socialism,humanism, psychoanalysis, fascism, and modernism itself -- have altered attitudes towardtime, space, self, creativity, the natural world, and community. "Deserves careful study."-- Choice