Inventing Modern: Growing Up With X-Rays, Skyscrapers and Tailfins

by Lienhard, John H

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New York: Oxford Univ Press, 2003. First Edition. Hard Cover. New/New. Photographs. The way to understanding any epoch is by reclaiming its peculiur texture. The Modern that we saw at the time was misleading; it was a world dancing with new X-rays, radium, and radio waves - Art Deco and Bauhaus, skyscrapers and Burma-Shave signs. Yet there has to be more than that! Science was surely a red thread running through Modern. As relativity theory and quantum mechanics departed from everything we had believed to constitute reality, it was clear that nothing would remain the same - that we faced change of a magnitude hitherto unimaginable. But the immensity of the transformation that occurred just after 1900 is actually cloaked by the accomplishments it brought about. It reveals itself only after we open ourselves to the kitsch and commonplace material world where we struggled to express the mystery of transmutation. And so this biography of Modern is more zoetropic than analytical. 292 pages including notes, and index, and drawings and photos scattered throughout. They are great! 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

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