Across the Great Divide: Modernismâ (Tm)S Intermedialities, from Futurism to Fluxus

by Christopher Townsend and Rhys Davies

There's nothing pure about modernism. For all the later critical emphasis upon 'medium specificity', modernist artists in their own times revel in the exchange of motifs and tropes from one kind of art to another; they revel in staging events where different media play crucial roles alongside each other, where different media interfere with each other, to spark new and surprising experiences for their audiences. This intermediality and multi-media...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1443854786
• ISBN13: 9781443854788
• Release Date: December 2014
• Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
• Length: 259 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.1"