Main entry:

Conrad, Peter, 1948-

Title & Author:

Modern times, modern places / by Peter Conrad.

Edition:

First American edition.

Publication:

New York : Knopf, [1999]
©1998

Description:

752 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes index.
On Being a Middle-Aged Child of our Times -- Notes on Etiquette, and Acknowledgments -- 1. Doomsday and After -- 2. The End of the World in Vienna -- 3. Interrogating the Universe -- 4. Trains, Cars, Aeroplanes -- 5. Zaum -- 6. Metamorphoses -- 7. The Adventures of Mercury -- 8. Retuning the Sky -- 9. Arms and Mankind -- 10. The Beginning of the World in Moscow and Petrograd -- 11. The New Human Beings -- 12. Vessels and Voids -- 13. The Mysteries of Paris -- 14. The End of the World in Berlin -- 15. The Early People -- 16. Spring, Sacred and Profane -- 17. The New Inhumanity -- 18. The Chapliniad -- 19. The Age of Light -- 20. Power and Darkness -- 21. Ameriques, Amerika -- 22. The End of the World in Hiroshima.
Also issued online.

Summary:

This twentieth century retrospective studies modernism, literature, the visual arts, music, the performing arts, science, and psychoanalysis., and "sees the modern era as a whole."--Jacket.

Resources:
Sample text
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description

ISBN:

037540113X
9780375401138
0375701052 (pbk.)
9780375701054 (pbk.)

Subject:

Civilization, Modern 20th century.
Arts, Modern 20th century.
Civilisation 20e siècle.
Arts 20e siècle.
Arts, Modern
Civilization, Modern
Kultur
Moderne
Cultuurverandering.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 203747
Call No.: CB425 .C583 1999
Status: Available