Sale!

The Modernist World 1st Edition by Allana Lindgren, Stephen Ross 0415845033 9780415845038

Original price was: $50.00.Current price is: $35.00.

The Modernist World Allana C. Lindgren Digital Instant Download

Author(s): Allana C. Lindgren; Stephen A. Ross
ISBN(s): 9780415845038, 0415845033
Edition: Hardcover
File Details: PDF, 6.56 MB
Year: 2015
Language: english
SKU: EB-10437052 Category: Tags: ,

The Modernist World 1st Edition by Allana Lindgren, Stephen Ross – Ebook PDF Instant Download/Delivery: 0415845033, 9780415845038

Full download The Modernist World 1st Edition after payment

Product details:

ISBN 10: 0415845033

ISBN 13: 9780415845038

Author: Allana C. Lindgren; Stephen A. Ross

The Modernist World is an accessible yet cutting edge volume which redraws the boundaries and connections among interdisciplinary and transnational modernisms. The 61 new essays address literature, visual arts, theatre, dance, architecture, music, film, and intellectual currents. The book also examines modernist histories and practices around the globe, including East and Southeast Asia, South Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, Australia and Oceania, Europe, Latin America, the Middle East and the Arab World, as well as the United States and Canada. A detailed introduction provides an overview of the scholarly terrain, and highlights different themes and concerns that emerge in the volume.

The Modernist World is essential reading for those new to the subject as well as more advanced scholars in the area – offering clear introductions alongside new and refreshing insights.

 

Table of contents:

PART I: EAST AND SOUTHEAST ASIA

1 Contexts for modernism: intellectual currents in East Asia

2 Building forwards and backwards in time: architectural modernism in East and Southeast Asia

3 Modernism and cinema in East Asia

4 Modern dance in East and Southeast Asia

5 Modernist literary production in East Asia

6 Musical modernism in Asia

7 Modern and modernist theatre and drama in East and Southeast Asia

8 When was East and Southeast Asia’s modernism in art? Comparisons and intersections

PART II: SOUTH ASIA

9 Tousled temporalities: modernist practices and intellectual–political currents in South Asia

10 Beyond the masters: modernism in South Asian architecture

11 Modernism and flm in South Asia: an Indian perspective

12 Dance in South Asia

13 Modernism and its four phases: literature in South Asia

14 Modernism in South Asian art music

15 Visual arts in South Asia

PART III: SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA

16 Modernization, development studies and modernity in current African

17 From ‘progress’ to post-colonial relics: modernist architecture and design in Africa

18 Defning Afro-modernism: African cinema’s response to modernity

19 Modernism and African dance: reinventing traditions

20 Modernism in Sub-Saharan African literature

21 Music and modernism in Africa

22 ‘A range of modernisms’: Sub-Saharan African theatre and the modernist world

23 Modernism in Africanist art history: the making of a new discipline

PART IV: AUSTRALIA AND OCEANIA

24 The experience of aboriginality in the creation of the radically new: modernist intellectual currents in Australasia

25 Indigenous conciliations with American modernity: architecture and design in Oceania

26 Modernism and flm in Australia and the Pacifc: the Australasian experience

27 Imported and homegrown: dancing modernists in Oceania

28 Defning nations: modernist literature in Australia and the Pacifc Islands

29 Australian musical frst modernism

30 Staging modernity in the ‘New Oceania’: modernism in Australian, New Zealand, and Pacifc Islands theatre

31 The modern primitive and the Antipodes: the visual arts and Oceania

PART V: EUROPE

32 ‘A rare moment of crisis’: modernist intellectual currents in Europe

33 Modernist architecture and design in Europe

34 Envisioning the scene of the modern: modernism and European cinema

35 Inventing abstraction? Modernist dance in Europe

36 Literature in Europe

37 Modernism in European music

38 Modernism and European drama/theatre

39 Modernist painting in and around Paris: the city as site, subject, and structure, 1880–1939

PART VI: LATIN AMERICA

40 Modernist intellectual currents in Latin America

41 Architectural Latin American modernism: twentieth-century politics, historiography and the academic debate

42 Racialized dance modernisms in Lusophone and Spanish-speaking Latin America

43 Latin America’s multiple literary modernisms

44 Renovation, rupture, and restoration: the modernist musical experience in Latin America

45 Modernism’s unfnished stage: theatre in Latin America

46 Beyond centre-periphery: modernism in Latin American art

PART VII: MIDDLE EAST AND THE ARAB WORLD

47 Accommodating an unexpected guest: the intellectual trends of modernity in the Middle East

48 Cinema and modernity in the Middle East: post-colonial newness and realism

49 Modernism and dance in the Middle East and North Africa

50 The crisis of the present: literature in the Middle East and North Africa

51 Modernization and westernization in Eastern music

52 Arab theatre between tradition and modernity

53 Modernism and the visual arts in the Middle East and North Africa

PART VIII: CANADA AND THE UNITED STATES

54 Modernist intellectual currents in Canada and the United States

55 Modernist architecture and design in Canada and the United States

56 Cinema modernisms in Canada and the United States

57 Embodied modernism: dance in Canada and the United States

58 Modernist literature in Canada and the United States

59 Modernism and music in Canada and the United States

60 Theatrical modernism: Canada and the United States

61 Modernism in the visual arts in Canada and the United States

People also search:

the modernist movement

world war 1 modernism

the modern world 10 great writers

the modernist era

a. modernist genre

Tags: Allana Lindgren, Stephen Ross