Modern times, modern places

Author(s)

• Conrad, Peter

Bibliographic Information

Modern times, modern places

Peter Conrad

Thames & Hudson, c1998

Other Title

life & art in the 20th Century

Note

Title on dust jacket: Life & art in the 20th Century

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

The world has changed faster during the 20th century than ever before. All our previous assumptions about God, our social, economic and political structures, science and technology, and - by extension - ourselves and our culture have been utterly transformed. The 20th century is the century that dared to question everything and its progress is told in this tour de force. "Modern Times" are explored through the cultural expressions - in art, in literature, in music - of the true conviction that we have lived through an unprecedentedly testing period in human experience. "Modern Places" are the locations that became the frontiers of modernity - cities like Vienna, Moscow, Paris and Berlin, new worlds in the Americas, and a preview of a possible future in Moscow. Did it all happen too fast and go too far? Modernity was like a rollercoaster ride, during which the human race jested with disaster and delighted in the havoc created by the play of g-forces. But despite the dangers that were unleashed along the way, with the clear perspective Peter Conrad provides on a phase of history that has nearly passed, we are much the better prepared to confront the new millennium. By making sense of our immediate past, this book will take us forward into the 21st century.

Table of Contents

• Doomsday and after
• the end of the world in Vienna
• interrogating the universe
• trains, cars, aeroplanes
• "Zaum"
• metamorphoses
• the adventures of Mercury
• returning the sky
• arms and mankind
• the beginning of the world in Moscow and Petrograd
• the new human beings
• vessels and voids
• the mysteries of Paris
• the end of the world in Berlin
• the early people
• spring, sacred and profane
• the new inhumanity
• the Chapliniad
• the age of light
• power and darkness
• Ameriques, Amerika
• the end of the world at Hiroshima
• America and infinitude
• Popism
• the prosthetic God
• the newer human beings
• third worlds
• spaceship Japan
• the great re-engagement
• "keep on going".

by "Nielsen BookData"

• NCID: BA39830225
• ISBN:
  • 0500018774
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: London
• Pages/Volumes: 752 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : CB425
  • DC21 : 909.82
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Twentieth century
  • LCSH : Civilization, Modern -- 20th century
  • LCSH : Arts, Modern -- 20th century