Early modernism - Christopher Butler

From the advent of Fauvism to the development of Dada, the early part of the 20th century saw a series of avant-garde movements in European literature, music and painting, which fundamentally re-examined the languages of the arts.;This is an integrated introduction to the great movements of early modernism, which highlights interaction between the arts and the nature of the developments made by Matisse, Picasso, Schoenberg, Eliot, Apollinaire, Marinetti, Benn and many others. The resulting changes and radical new techniques such as atonality, cubism and collage are set in the context both of the art that preceded them and a profound shift in ideas.;Theories of the unconscious, the association of ideas, primitivism, and reliance upon an expressionist intuition led to a reshaped conception of personal identity, and the book examines the representation of the modernist self in the work of figures including Joyce, Mann, Conrad and Stravinsky.