Modernism A Very Short Introduction Christopher Butler by Christopher Butler 9780191613487, 0191613487 instant download after payment.

Is a tower block, your unmade bed, your lavatory basin, or the bicycle
chained to the gate next door 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. In this Very Short
Introduction Christopher Butler examines how and why Modernism began,
explaining what it is and showing how it has gradually informed all
aspects of 20th and 21st century life. Butler considers several aspects
of modernism including some modernist works; movements and notions of
the avant garde; and the idea of 'progress' in art. Butler looks at
modernist ideas of the self, subjectivity, irrationalism, people and
machines, and political definitions of modernism as a whole. ABOUT THE
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