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

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

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

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

by Didier Maleuvre
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Book Overview

What made art modern? What is modern art? The Legends of the Modern demystifies 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 Modern lays 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.
ISBN9781501371974
Author Didier Maleuvre
PublisherBloomsbury Academic
GenreArts, Literature, and History
FormatPaperback
PublishedApril 2021
LanguageENG- English
Pages264
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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

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

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

By Didier Maleuvre

About Didier Maleuvre

Didier Maleuvre is Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author of The Religion of Reality: Inquiry into the Self, Art, and Transcendence and Museum Memories: History, Technology, Art.

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