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100 1 $aEverdell, William R.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n83179562
245 14 $aThe first moderns :$bprofiles in the origins of twentieth-century thought /$cWilliam R. Everdell.
260 $aChicago :$bUniversity of Chicago Press,$c1997.
300 $axi, 501 pages ;$c24 cm
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504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 423-461) and index.
505 00 $g1.$tIntroduction: What Modernism Is and What It Probably Isn't --$g2.$tThe Century Ends in Vienna: Modernism's Time Lost, 1899 --$g3.$tGeorg Cantor, Richard Dedekind, and Gottlob Frege: What Is a Number, 1872-1883 --$g4.$tLudwig Boltzmann: Statistical Gases, Entropy, and the Direction of Time, 1872-1877 --$g5.$tGeorges Seurat: Divisionism, Cloisonnism, and Chronophotography, 1885 --$g6.$tWhitman, Rimbaud, and Jules Laforgue: Poems without Meter, 1886 --$g7.$tSantiago Ramon y Cajal: The Atoms of Brain, 1889 --$g8.$tValeriano Weyler y Nicolau: Inventing the Concentration Camp, 1896 --$g9.$tSigmund Freud: Time Repressed and Ever-Present, 1899 --$g10.$tThe Century Begins in Paris: Modernism on the Verge, 1900 --$g11.$tHugo de Vries and Max Planck: The Gene and the Quantum, 1900 --$g12.$tBertrand Russell and Edmund Husserl: Phenomenology, Number, and the Fall of Logic, 1901 --$g13.$tEdwin S. Porter: Parts at Sixteen per Second, 1903 --$g14.$tMeet Me in Saint Louis: Modernism Comes to Middle America, 1904 --
505 80 $g15.$tAlbert Einstein: The Space-Time Interval and the Quantum of Light, 1905 --$g16.$tPablo Picasso: Seeing All Sides, 1906-1907 --$g17.$tAugust Strindberg: Staging a Broken Dream, 1907 --$g18.$tArnold Schoenberg: Music in No Key, 1908 --$g19.$tJames Joyce: The Novel Goes to Pieces, 1909-1910 --$g20.$tVassily Kandisky: Art with No Object, 1911-1912 --$g21.$tAnnus Mirabilis: Vienna, Paris, and St. Petersburg, 1913 --$g22.$tDiscontinuous Epilogues: Heisenberg and Bohr, Godel and Turing, Merce Cunningham and Michael Foucault.
520 $aIn the early 1870s, mathematicians like Cantor and Dedekind discovered the set and divided the mathematical continuum; in 1886, Georges Seurat debuted his visionary masterpiece, Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte; by the end of 1900, Hugo de Vries had discovered the gene, Max Planck had laid claim to the quantum, and Sigmund Freud had laid bare the unconscious workings of dreams.
520 8 $aThroughout the worlds of art and ideas, of science and philosophy, Modernism was dawning, and with it a new mode of conceptualization.
520 8 $aWith astounding range and scholarly command, William Everdell constructs a lively and accessible history of nascent Modernism - narrating portraits of genius, profiling intellectual breakthroughs, and richly evoking the fin-de-siecle atmosphere of Paris, Vienna, St. Louis, and St. Petersburg. He follows Picasso to the Cabaret des Assassins, discourses with Ernst Mach on the contingency of scientific law, and takes in the riotous premiere of Stravinsky's Rite of Spring.
520 8 $aBut how are we to define the inception of an era predicated upon such far-flung and radically disparate innovations? Everdell is careful not to insist on the creative interrelation of these events. Instead, what for him unites such germinally modernist achievements is a profound conceptual insight: that the objects of our knowledge are - contrary to the evolutionary seamlessness of nineteenth-century thought - discrete, atomistic, and discontinuous.
520 8 $aThe gray matter was found to be made out of neurons, poems out of disjunctive images, and paintings out of dots of color, all by innovators whose worlds were just beginning to align. Theoretically sophisticated yet marvelously entertaining, The First Moderns offers an invigorating look at the unfolding of an age.
650 0 $aThought and thinking$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aModernism (Aesthetics)$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85086444
650 0 $aIntellectual life$xHistory$y20th century.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008123916
650 0 $aScience$xHistory$y20th century.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008111330
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