TY - BOOK ID - 136780745 TI - The legends of the modern PY - 2019 SN - 1501353861 1501353853 9781501353857 9781501353864 9781501353871 150135387X 9781501353840 PB - New York DB - UniCat KW - Arts, Modern. KW - Modernism (Aesthetics). UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:136780745 AB - "What made art modern? What is modern art? The Legends of the Modern demystifies the ideas and "legends" that have shaped our appreciation of modern art and literature. Beginning with an examination of the early modern artists Shakespeare, Michelangelo, and Cervantes, Didier Maleuvre demonstrates how many of the foundational works of modern culture were born not from the legendry of expressive freedom, originality, creativity, subversion, or spiritual profundity but out of unease with these ideas. This ambivalence toward the modern has lain at the heart of artistic modernity from the late Renaissance onward, and the arts have since then shown both exhilaration and disappointment with their own creative power. The Legends of the Modern lays bare the many contradictions that pull at the fabric of modernity and demonstrates that modern art's dissatisfaction with modernity is in fact a vital facet of this cultural period."--Bloomsbury Publishing. ER -