Traces and explores the rise of artistic Modernism, the cultural movement that heralded and shaped the modern world, dominating western high culture for over a century. This book explores the shocking modernist rebellion that, beginning in the 1840s, ....
In an engrossing, carefully researched narrative, Peter Gay finds the truth behind the myths in which Mozart's life has until now been shrouded: the image of the willful child unable to outgrow his infantile ways; and the miracle-working composer who...