TY  - BOOK
AU  - Butler,Christopher
TI  - Modernism: a very short introduction 
T2  - Very short introductions
SN  - 9780192804419
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Oxford, New York
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Modernism (Aesthetics)
KW  - Modernism (Art)
KW  - Modernism (Literature)
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 103-114) and index; The modernist work -- Modernist movements and cultural tradition -- The modernist artist -- Modernism and politics
N2  - "Why do cultures depend so much on mythical illusions to  the past? Could the bicycle chained to the gate next door  be a work of art? How do human beings really think, when  they are not speaking? How do high and low culture relate  to one another? In this Very Short Introduction  Christopher Butter looks at the many innovations created  by Modernist thinkers and artists, showing how powerful  ideas and formal experiment have produced the music,  painting, and literature which has informed all aspects  of 20th and 21st century life."
ER  -