Author: Steve Giles
Title: Theorising Modernism: Essays in Critical Theory
Description: London, Routledge, 1993. First edition. Hardback. A fascinating collection of essays regarding Modernism by various contributors. An excellent first edition, illustrated; a very scarce copy. Steve Giles edited this volume which contains various critical essays on Modernism. A very scarce volume, the first edition of 1993. Containing a series of essays that contribute to our understanding of modernism, and shed a light on the controversies which surrounded post-modernism. Including 'The Problematics of European Modernism' by Richard Sheppard; 'Machinations: Shock of the Old, Fear of the New - Apollinaire and Alberti' by Bernard McGuirk; 'Wyndham Lewis's Vorticism and the Aesthetics of Closure' by David Wragg; 'Kurt Merz Schwitters: Aesthetics, Politics and the Negentropic Principle' by Mike Johnson; and an afterword by Steve Giles titles 'Avant-Garde, Modernism, Modernity: A Theoretical Overview.' Illustrated with five plates in text. In the original publisher's binding over paper covered boards. Externally excellent with minor shelf wear only. Internally, firmly bound. The pages are bright and clean. Illustrated with five plates in text.  Fine . Ill.: Not Stated. Fine .

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