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Modernism: A Very Short Introduction VERYSHORTINTRODUCTIONS areforanyonewantingastimulating andaccessiblewayintoanewsubject.Theyarewrittenbyexperts,and havebeenpublishedinmorethan25languagesworldwide. Theseriesbeganin1995,andnowrepresentsawidevarietyoftopicsin history,philosophy,religion,science,andthehumanities.TheVSIlibrarynow containsover200volumes—aVeryShortIntroductiontoeverythingfrom ancientEgyptandIndianphilosophytoconceptualartandcosmology—and willcontinuetogrowtoalibraryofaround300titles. 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TWENTIETH-CENTURY ROUSSEAU RobertWokler BRITAIN KennethO.Morgan RUSSELL A.C.Grayling THEUNITEDNATIONS RUSSIANLITERATURE JussiM.Hanhim¨aki CatrionaKelly THEVIKINGS JulianRichards THERUSSIANREVOLUTION WITCHCRAFT MalcolmGaskill S.A.Smith WITTGENSTEIN A.C.Grayling SCHIZOPHRENIA ChrisFrithand WORLDMUSIC PhilipBohlman EveJohnstone THEWORLDTRADE SCHOPENHAUER ORGANIZATION AmritaNarlikar ChristopherJanaway WRITINGANDSCRIPT SCIENCEANDRELIGION AndrewRobinson ThomasDixon Availablesoon: ChristianEthics Leadership KeithGrint D.StephenLong SpanishLiterature Landscapesand JoLabanyi Geomorphology Tocqueville AndrewGoudieandHeatherViles HarveyC.Mansfield Formoreinformationvisitourwebsite www.oup.co.uk/general/vsi/ This page intentionally left blank Christopher Butler Modernism A Very Short Introduction 1 3 GreatClarendonStreet,OxfordOX26DP OxfordUniversityPressisadepartmentoftheUniversityofOxford. ItfurtherstheUniversity’sobjectiveofexcellenceinresearch,scholarship, andeducationbypublishingworldwidein Oxford NewYork Auckland CapeTown DaresSalaam HongKong Karachi KualaLumpur Madrid Melbourne MexicoCity Nairobi NewDelhi Shanghai Taipei Toronto Withofficesin Argentina Austria Brazil Chile CzechRepublic France Greece Guatemala Hungary Italy Japan Poland Portugal Singapore SouthKorea Switzerland Thailand Turkey Ukraine Vietnam OxfordisaregisteredtrademarkofOxfordUniversityPress intheUKandincertainothercountries PublishedintheUnitedStates byOxfordUniversityPressInc.,NewYork #ChristopherButler2010 Themoralrightsoftheauthorhavebeenasserted DatabaserightOxfordUniversityPress(maker) Firstpublished2010 Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthispublicationmaybereproduced, storedinaretrievalsystem,ortransmitted,inanyformorbyanymeans, withoutthepriorpermissioninwritingofOxfordUniversityPress, orasexpresslypermittedbylaw,orundertermsagreedwiththeappropriate reprographicsrightsorganization.Enquiriesconcerningreproduction outsidethescopeoftheaboveshouldbesenttotheRightsDepartment, OxfordUniversityPress,attheaddressabove Youmustnotcirculatethisbookinanyotherbindingorcover andyoumustimposethesameconditiononanyacquirer BritishLibraryCataloguinginPublicationData Dataavailable LibraryofCongressCataloginginPublicationData Dataavailable TypesetbySPIPublisherServices,Pondicherry,India PrintedinGreatBritainby AshfordColourPressLtd,Gosport,Hampshire ISBN 978–0–19–280441–9 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 Contents Listofillustrations xi 1 Themodernistwork 1 2 Modernistmovementsandculturaltradition 14 3 Themodernistartist 50 4 Modernismandpolitics 80 References 103 Furtherreading 111 Index115

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Modernism ushered in some of the most exciting innovations in art and literature, from Fauvism, Cubism, and Dada, to the novels of James Joyce and Franz Kafka, to such provocative works as Marcel Duchamp's "Fountain." But Modernism also left many people puzzled in its wake. How can a routine bathroo
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