Five Faces of Modernity: Modernism, Avant-garde, Decadence, Kitsch, Postmodernism by Matei Călinescu

Five Faces of Modernity: Modernism, Avant-garde, Decadence, Kitsch, Postmodernism

Matei Călinescu

412 pages first pub 1987 (editions)

nonfiction art history philosophy challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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Five Faces of Modernity is a series of semantic and cultural biographies of words that have taken on special significance in the last century and a half or so: modernity, avant-garde, decadence, kitsch, and postmodernism. The concept of modernity-...

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