Modernism: The Lure of Heresy

Modernism was born in 1840s France and all but died in 1960s America, says cultural historian Peter Gay. Beginning with the poetry of Baudelaire and the nudes of Manet, the movement was distinguished in all fields by two common impulses. First among these

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Modernism: The Lure of Heresy

by Peter Gay

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