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The vertical imagination and the crisis of transatlantic modernism / Paul Haacke.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Haacke, Paul, author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Modernism (Literature)--History.
- Modernism (Literature).
- Modernism (Art).
- Modern movement (Architecture)--Influence.
- Modern movement (Architecture).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (384 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour).
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford, England : Oxford University Press, [2021]
- Summary:
- From the invention of skyscrapers and airplanes to the development of the nuclear bomb, ideas about the 'modern' increasingly revolved around vertiginous images of elevation and decline and new technologies of mobility and terror from above. In this book, Paul Haacke examines this turn by focusing on discourses of aspiration, catastrophe, and power in major works of European and American literature as well as film, architecture, and intellectual and cultural history.
- Notes:
- This edition also issued in print: 2021.
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-188603-3
- 0-19-259216-5
- 0-19-259217-3
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