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The Legends of the Modern: A Reappraisal of Modernity from Shakespeare to the Age of Duchamp

By Didier Maleuvre

Book information

Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
Year
2019
ISBN
1501353861, 9781501353864
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
12 MB (12125171 bytes)
Pages
0\261
Topic
Art
Time added
2020-01-14 08:11:38

Description

What made art modern? What is modern art?The Legends of the Moderndemystifies the ideas and "legends" that have shaped our appreciation of modern art and literature. Beginning with an examination of the early modern artists Shakespeare, Michelangelo, and Cervantes, Didier Maleuvre demonstrates how many of the foundational works of modern culture were born not from the legendry of expressive freedom, originality, creativity, subversion, or spiritual profundity but out of unease with these ideas. This ambivalence toward the modern has lain at the heart of artistic modernity from the late Renaissance onward, and the arts have since then shown both exhilaration and disappointment with their own creative power.The Legends of the Modernlays bare the many contradictions that pull at the fabric of modernity and demonstrates that modern art's dissatisfaction with modernity is in fact a vital facet of this cultural period.

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