Modernism: the lure of heresy : from Baudelaire to Beckett and beyond

List of Illustrations

Preface

A Climate for Modernism

"Make it New!"

Misreading Modernism

An Array of Prerequisites

Part 1. Founders

1. Professional Outsiders

The Heroism of Modern Life

Art for Artists' Sake

2. Irreconcilables and Impresarios

1900

A New Way of Seeing

Middlemen as Pedagogues

Part 2. Classics

3. Painting and Sculptures - The Madness of the Unexpected

Self-Absorption: Expressive Inwardness

Self-Absorption: The Germans

Mystical Modernism

Anarchists and Authoritarians

Picasso: The One-Man Band

L.H.O.O.Q.

Anti-Mimesis

4. Prose and Poetry - Intermittences of the Heart

The New Fiction

Defying Mr. Bennett

Four Modern Masters

Kafka

The Poet of Poets

5. Music and Dance - The Liberation of Sound

Overtures

Modernists: Pacesetters

Modernists: Arnold Schoenberg

Modernists: Igor Stravinsky

Lesser Titans

The Balanchine Era

6. Architecture and Design - Machinery, a New Factor in Human Affairs

"There's nothing more important than architecture"

"A house is a machine for living in"

"Good proportions and practical simplicity"

"Hitler is my best friend"

"Beauty waiting for us"

7. Drama and Movies - The Human Element

"Merdre!"

An Autobiographer and Others

The New Man

The Only All-Modern Art

Part 3. Endings

8. Eccentrics and Barbarians

Anti-Modern Modernists: After Strange Gods

Anti-Modern Modernists: A Local Genius

Anti-Modern Modernists: A Nordic Psychologist

Barbarians: Hitler's Germany

Barbarians: Stalin's Soviet Union

Barbarians: Mussolini's Italy

9. Life After Death?

Clearing the Slate

An Age of Ingenuity

Success

Signs of Life

Coda: And Gehry at Bilbao

Notes

Bibliographical Essay

Acknowledgments

Credits

Index