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Modernism – The Lure of Heresy: The Lure of Heresy from Baudelaire to Beckett and Beyond Hardcover – 27 November 2007

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Peter Gay's most ambitious endeavor since Freud explores the shocking modernist rebellion that, beginning in the 1840s, transformed art, literature, music, and film with its assault on traditional forms. Beginning his epic study with Baudelaire, whose lurid poetry scandalized French stalwarts, Gay traces the revolutionary path of modernism from its Parisian origins to its emergence as the dominant cultural movement in world capitals such as Berlin and New York. A work unique in its breadth and brilliance, Modernism presents a thrilling pageant of heretics that includes (among others) Oscar Wilde, Pablo Picasso, and D. W. Griffiths; James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, and T. S. Eliot; Walter Gropius, Arnold Schoenberg, and (of course!) Andy Warhol. Finally, Gay examines the hostility of totalitarian regimes to modernist freedom and the role of Pop Art in sounding the death knell of a movement that dominated Western culture for 120 years. Lavishly illustrated, Modernism is a superlative achievement by one of our greatest historians.

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W. W. Norton & Company
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27 November 2007
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16.76 x 4.57 x 24.13 cm
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0393052052
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978-0393052053
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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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Publisher ‏ : ‎ W. W. Norton & Company (27 November 2007)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 640 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0393052052
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0393052053
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 16.76 x 4.57 x 24.13 cm

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Reviewed in Germany on 19 September 2019

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»Modernism«, written by Peter Gay, is the best book I ordered in my entire live. And I got it immediately, without any problems and in a perfect conditions. So much things which I didn't know at all, so much informations which i had not yet. I'm so happy! Thank you.

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My husband loves this book. So I brought this for him.It only takes two days for me to get it.

A.E.M. Baumann

A History for general reading, though more than coffee table fare

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There are two ways to approach something of the nature of the subject of Modernism: from the outside, which lends to a text that is more a factual history, and from the inside, which makes for a more ideational history. While the subtitle of the book, "The Lure of Heresy," might give the idea that it is the latter, it is very much the former. For example, Gay opens up the section on Painting and Sculpture with a survey of self-portraiture by Modernist painters, which very much dwells in what I would say is Gay's central idea: that Modernism was a turning in by artists toward an exploration of the self. But the ideational aspect never goes much deeper than demonstrating a general trend. If you are looking for something more toward an engagement with the aesthetics and theories of Modernists, or a more indepth exploration of that idea of turning toward the self, then this might not what you are looking for.

This is not what I would consider a "scholarly" text. It is a history presented to a more general audience. (And one of the blurbs above speaks of Gay as a "superior popularizer.") If you are looking for the former, this might not be for you.

In fact, the book very much has the feel (and there are moments in the first part that hint at this) that in writing this Gay was confronted with the option of either addressing his central ideas in depth using many pages to do so or more presenting a more cursory and more casually readable exploration, and he chose the latter. Which is not at all a criticism of the book. Nor are the two previous points. I am simply here describing the book for those who are thinking of purchasing it without looking within it first. While this is a very enjoyable book, personally while reading it I was wanting to close it and move to something like Bradbury and McFarlane's book of the same name -- which is much more of a scholarly presentation.

Let me be clear, however, I do not mean to say this is a coffee table history. Gay is presenting his idea as to what was/is Modernism. And it is an interesting idea, one that finds its currents more in the psyche of the artists than in the characteristics of the their work, which to me is the correct path. (Though, I am very curious to know what a person who knows little about Modernism would take away from this book. I wonder if the limits of the text create false ideas -- like an undervaluing of the Symbolists.) If you are looking for a lighter introduction to or survey of Modernism, this might be worth the price of admission.

If I have one negative, it is that the book seems very uneven in its use of illustrations. The opening section introducing the ideas of the book has many, and then, when the book gets to the meat of the matter, they disappear almost entirely. One would think it would be the other way around. (In fact, it hints to me that the book as published may not be the book for which Gay was aiming.)

I give it four stars, though 3 1/2 would be more accurate.

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An absolutely brilliant study of Modernism from various cultural perspectives—truly a pleasure ...

Reviewed in the United States on 20 January 2015

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An absolutely brilliant study of Modernism from various cultural perspectives—truly a pleasure to read for scholars and anyone interested in the period.

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Reviewed in the United States on 16 August 2017

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I think this is an excellent history of modernism.

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