The Mental Life of Modernism: Why Poetry, Painting, and Music Changed at the Turn of the Twentieth Century

by Samuel Jay Keyser

An argument that Modernism is a cognitive phenomenon rather than a cultural one.

At the beginning of the twentieth century, poetry, music, and painting all underwent a sea change. Poetry abandoned rhyme and meter; music ceased to be tonally centered; and painting no longer aimed at faithful representation. These artistic developments have been attributed to cultural factors ranging from the Industrial Revolution and the technical innovation...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262043491
• ISBN13: 9780262043496
• Release Date: March 2020
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.1"