modernism

[Mark Kohut]

I love the line "we live in an age of musical comedies" which
reminded me of OBA's many circus motifs in ATD----Moorcock
basically called AtD a massive circus novel in his review----
and, of course, "it's all theater now". 




----- Original Message ----
From: Monte Davis <monte.davis at verizon.net>
To: P-list <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Saturday, November 17, 2007 8:32:23 AM
Subject: RE: modernism

"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


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