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  1. The vertical imagination and the crisis of transatlantic modernism
    Author: Haacke, Paul
    Published: 2021
    Publisher:  Oxford University Press, Oxford

    From the invention of skyscrapers and airplanes to the development of the nuclear bomb, ideas about the 'modern' increasingly revolved around vertiginous images of elevation and decline and new technologies of mobility and terror from above. In this... more

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    From the invention of skyscrapers and airplanes to the development of the nuclear bomb, ideas about the 'modern' increasingly revolved around vertiginous images of elevation and decline and new technologies of mobility and terror from above. In this book, Paul Haacke examines this turn by focusing on discourses of aspiration, catastrophe, and power in major works of European and American literature as well as film, architecture, and intellectual and cultural history.

     

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    Source: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780191886034
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    Edition: First edition
    Series: Oxford scholarship online
    Subjects: Modernism (Literature); Modernism (Art); Modern movement (Architecture); Metaphor in literature; Metaphor in art; Altitudes in literature; Altitudes in art; Ascension in literature; Ascension in art
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (viii, 370 pages), illustrations (black and white, and colour)
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    This edition also issued in print: 2021. - Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on CIP data; resource not viewed

  2. The vertical imagination and the crisis of transatlantic modernism
    Author: Haacke, Paul
    Published: 2021
    Publisher:  Oxford University Press, Oxford

    From the invention of skyscrapers and airplanes to the development of the nuclear bomb, ideas about the 'modern' increasingly revolved around vertiginous images of elevation and decline and new technologies of mobility and terror from above. In this... more

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    From the invention of skyscrapers and airplanes to the development of the nuclear bomb, ideas about the 'modern' increasingly revolved around vertiginous images of elevation and decline and new technologies of mobility and terror from above. In this book, Paul Haacke examines this turn by focusing on discourses of aspiration, catastrophe, and power in major works of European and American literature as well as film, architecture, and intellectual and cultural history.

     

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    Source: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780191886034
    Other identifier:
    Edition: First edition
    Series: Oxford scholarship online
    Subjects: Modernism (Literature); Modernism (Art); Modern movement (Architecture); Metaphor in literature; Metaphor in art; Altitudes in literature; Altitudes in art; Ascension in literature; Ascension in art
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (viii, 370 pages), illustrations (black and white, and colour)
    Notes:

    This edition also issued in print: 2021. - Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on CIP data; resource not viewed