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020 _a9780192804419
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100 _aButler, Christopher
245 _aModernism : A Very Short Introduction
260 _aOxford
_bOxford University Press
_c2010
300 _a117
440 _aVery Short Introductions
520 _aModernism: A Very Short Introduction examines how and why modernism began, what it is, how it has gradually informed all aspects of 20th and 21st century life. Modernism expressed a new way of thinking of the self, subjectivity, irrationalism, people and machines, and politics. Is a tower block, an unmade bed, a lavatory basin, or the bicycle chained to a gate a work of art? Why should a novel have a beginning, a middle, and an end; or even a story? Whether we recognise it or not, virtually every aspect of our life today has been influenced in part by the aesthetic legacy of modernism. What does modernism mean today?
650 _a20th-Century Philosophy
650 _aAesthetics and Philosophy of Art
650 _aHistory of ArtLiterary
650 _aTheory and Cultural Studies
650 _a19th-Century Philosophy
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