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Rites of Spring: The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age

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 | #54732 in Books |  2000-09-14 |  2000-09-14 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  8.25 x1.08 x5.50l,.92 | File type: PDF | 416 pages

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||5 of 5 people found the following review helpful.| ''History, as one theme of this study will try to show, has surrendered much of its former authority to fiction."|By Clay Garner|''Our century is one in which life and art have blended, in which existence has become aestheticized. History, as one theme of this study will try to show, has surrendered much of its former authority to fiction.''

This presents the emotion|From Publishers Weekly|In a trailblazing, iconoclastic work of cultural history, Eksteins links the modern avant-garde's penchant for primitivism, abstraction and myth-making to the protofascist ideology and militarism unleashed by WW I. For Eksteins, professor

A rare and remarkable cultural history of World War I that unearths the roots of modernism

 

Dazzling in its originality, Rites of Spring probes the origins, impact, and aftermath of World War I, from the premiere of Stravinsky's ballet The Rite of Spring in 1913 to the death of Hitler in 1945. Recognizing that “The Great War was the psychological turning point . . . for modernism as a whole,” author Modris Eksteins ex...

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