A brilliant, provocative long essay on the rise and fall and surival of modernism, by the English-languages' greatest living cultural historian.
Peter Gay is the author of more than twenty-five books, including the National Book Award winner The Enlightenment, the best-selling Weimar Culture, and the widely translated Freud; A Life for Our Time.
"Beautifully written, wide-ranging and psychologically acute, Modernism: The Lure of Heresy is a celebration of the subversive energies that decisively transformed art and culture in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. At once bracingly intelligent and elegiac, Gay's magisterial book is richly rewarding for anyone who wants to understand the fractured world we have all inherited." Stephen Greenblatt "Peter Gay has outdone himself. In his hands Modernism adds up to more than the sum of its subversive, sensational, unsettling parts. This is cultural history of the highest magnitude, a work as astute in its analyses as it is massive in its ambition. And as ever, it is written with stunning lucidity. A splendid, invigorating achievement." Stacy Schiff "A wonderful book. You can be sure that students and journalists and teachers will be stealing from Modernism for years to come. Bravo!" Hilton Kramer "[a] thrilling survey of a century." The Observer "Tackling the 20th century's massive diversity of cultural productions, this highly readable, well-illustrated survey, moving between art, literature, architecture, music and film, with a light touch...As an intelligent and exciting account of creative individuals and the times in which they worked, it's an enormous achievement." New Statesman
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