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Modern times, modern places : life and art in the twentieth century / Peter Conrad.

By: Conrad, Peter, 1948-.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: London : Thames and Hudson, 1998Description: 752 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. + pbk.ISBN: 0500018774.Subject(s): Civilization, Modern -- 20th century | Arts, Modern -- 20th centuryDDC classification: 909.82
Contents:
Doomsday and after -- The end of the world in Vienna -- Interrogating the universe -- Trains, cars, aeroplanes -- Zaum -- Metamorphoses -- The adventures of Mercury -- Retuning 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 in Hiroshima -- American infinities -- Admass -- Gods and Gadgets -- The newer human beings -- Others -- A trip to the future -- The great re-engagement -- Keep going.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
General Lending MTU Bishopstown Library Lending 909.82 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00074787
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

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.

Includes index.

Doomsday and after -- The end of the world in Vienna -- Interrogating the universe -- Trains, cars, aeroplanes -- Zaum -- Metamorphoses -- The adventures of Mercury -- Retuning 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 in Hiroshima -- American infinities -- Admass -- Gods and Gadgets -- The newer human beings -- Others -- A trip to the future -- The great re-engagement -- Keep going.

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