modernism

[Monte Davis]

"Peter Gay is perhaps our leading historian of culture and ideas, and in
"Modernism: The Lure of Heresy: From Baudelaire to Beckett and Beyond," he
sets himself an interesting -- personally felt -- task. It is not, as he
writes in his introduction, to give a comprehensive history of the movement.
Rather, Gay undertakes a reconstruction of modernism's origins in the lives
and work of various seminal artists -- Charles Baudelaire, Oscar Wilde,
Claude Monet, Paul Cézanne, their supporters and friends. Then he moves
through a series of essay-like chapters devoted to modernism's workings in
each of the arts -- painting, sculpture, literature, music, dance,
architecture and so on.'

http://www.latimes.com/features/books/la-et-rutten14nov14,0,203673.story