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Peter Gay explores the shocking modernist rebellion that, beginning in the 1840s, transformed art, literature, music, and film. Modernism presents a thrilling pageant of heretics that includes Oscar Wilde, Pablo Picasso, D. W. Griffiths, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, T. S. Eliot, Walter Gropius, Arnold Schoenberg, and (of course!) Andy Warhol.
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Peter Gay is perhaps our leading historian of culture and ideas.--Tim Rutten
An ambitious survey . . . [by] a superior popularizer.--Michael Dirda
A masterful work of cultural history . . . and it's truly a pleasure to read.--Mia Fineman
It's done so gracefully, and engagingly, that even as I raced to finish before our interview, I couldn't make myself skim.--Katie Bolick
A brilliant, provocative long essay on the rise and fall and survival of modernism, by the English-languages' greatest living cultural historian.
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