Art, Politics and Society in Britain (1880-1914) - Aspects of Modernity and Modernism (Hardcover, Unabridged edition)

The oldest word in politics is "new". The oldest word in the writing of history may well be "modern": it is, without doubt, one of the most overworked adjectives in the English language. But the indeterminacy is perhaps just another way of saying that the difficulties raised are of a kind which simply will not go away... This collection of eight essays on aspects of modernity and modernism takes up the challenge of examining the complex, but fascinating convergence of aesthetics, politics and a quasi-spiritual dimension which is perhaps typical of British modernist thinking about modernity. This may have produced figures whom we now dismiss as eccentrics or "aesthetes", it none the less produced figures whom many still think of as in some sense embodying the national identity: what, after all, could be more "English" than a William Morris wallpaper design? Rather than towards socialism in any of its "scientific" guises, what the British modernist approach to modernity may have been pushing at was yet another mutation of liberalism: a libertarian-humanitarian hybrid in which indigenous radical and Evangelical legacies keep scientific socialism in check, where fellowship and domesticity edge out a larger-scale, more abstract "fraternity", and where citoyennete or civisme give way to what George Orwell was later to define simply as "decency".

General

Imprint:	Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	November 2009
First published:	November 2009
Editors:	Trevor Harris
Dimensions:	212 x 148 x 16mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - With dust jacket
Pages:	155
Edition:	Unabridged edition
ISBN-13:	978-1-4438-1364-8
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political science & theory Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > 1800 to 1900 > Arts & crafts design Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history Books > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history Promotions
LSN:	1-4438-1364-8
Barcode:	9781443813648

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