Transatlantic Modernism

edited by Joseph C Schopp and Martin Klepper

Book cover: Transatlantic Modernism

Extent: 307 pages

Publisher: Universitätsverlag Winter

Subjects: American Studies

Series: American Studies - A Monograph Series

Series volume number: 89

Language: English

(Hardback) (Published)

(January 2001)

ISBN: 9783825312213

5.28 x 8.27 inches

Price: $65.00

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Modernism in Europe and modernism in the United States – at first glance these two concepts seem to be quite different if not opposing. European modernism, it appears, is innovative and even iconoclastic (Joyce, Schonberg, Gropius, Schwitters). American modernism, it would seem, is rather reconciliatory and even conservative (Fitzgerald, Gershwin, Wright and Hopper). The collection of essays in Transatlantic Modernism disproves this point. Transatlantic Modernism tackles the modes of transfer, translation, cross-fertilization and reinterpretation which actually characterize the complex relations between European and American cultures within the period of modernism. The essays collected in this volume cover a broad array of forms of cultural expression: literature (Doblin, Dos Passos, Faulkner etc.), philosophy (Bergson, James, Dewey), painting (Gleizes, Stella, Shahn), photography (Ray, Steichen, Sheeler), fashion (Poiret, Delaunay, Schiaparelli), film (Fox, Stroheim, Lubitsch), architecture (Bauhaus, Johnson, Hitchcock) and opera (Thomson, Stein).

  • Edited by Martin Klepper
  • Edited by Joseph C Schopp