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Constellation of Genius : 1922: Modernism Year One by Kevin Jackson (2013, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherFarrar, Straus & Giroux
ISBN-100374128987
ISBN-139780374128982
eBay Product ID (ePID)159923557
Product Key Features
Book TitleConstellation of Genius : 1922: Modernism Year One
Number of Pages448 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicHistory / Modern (Late 19th Century to 1945), Modern / 20th Century, Social History, Semiotics & Theory
Publication Year2013
IllustratorYes
GenreLiterary Criticism, Art, History
AuthorKevin Jackson
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.4 in
Item Weight23.7 Oz
Item Length9.2 in
Item Width6.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
Dewey Edition23
Reviews" Constellation of Genius . . . is that most counterintuitive of things, an insanely readable book about modernism. Indeed, I think it no disservice to Jackson to say that this is the primer [modernism] has been looking for: a way into its symbolic labyrinth." -Will Self, The Guardian "A lively guide to modernism's heyday . . . Deft, elegant and illuminating." - Literary Review "[A] marvelous diary of a single year . . . You will be struck by some startling moment of import in a life of genius or an epoch-making event." - Sunday Herald, Constellation of Genius . . . is that most counterintuitive of things, an insanely readable book about modernism. Indeed, I think it no disservice to Jackson to say that this is the primer [modernism] has been looking for: a way into its symbolic labyrinth., " Constellation of Genius is an insanely readable book about modernism." - The Guardian "A lively guide to modernism's heyday . . . Deft, elegant and illuminating." - Literary Review "[A] marvelous diary of a single year . . . You will be struck by some startling moment of import in a life of genius or an epoch-making event." - Sunday Herald, [A] marvelous diary of a single year . . . You will be struck by some startling moment of import in a life of genius or an epoch-making event., " Constellation of Genius . . . is that most counterintuitive of things, an insanely readable book about modernism. Indeed, I think it no disservice to Jackson to say that this is the primer [modernism] has been looking for: a way into its symbolic labyrinth." -- Will Self, The Guardian "A lively guide to modernism's heyday . . . Deft, elegant and illuminating. " -- Literary Review "[A] marvelous diary of a single year . . . You will be struck by some startling moment of import in a life of genius or an epoch-making event. " -- Sunday Herald
Dewey Decimal909.822
SynopsisEzra Pound referred to 1922 as Year One of a new era. It was the year that began with the publication of James Joyce's Ulysses and ended with the publication of T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land , two works that were arguably "the sun and moon" of modernist literature, some would say of modernity itself. In Constellation of Genius , Kevin Jackson puts the titanic achievements of Joyce and Eliot in the context of the world in which their works first appeared. As Jackson writes in his introduction, "On all sides, and in every field, there was a frenzy of innovation." It is in 1922 that Hitchcock directs his first feature; Kandinsky and Klee join the Bauhaus; the first AM radio station is launched; Walt Disney releases his first animated shorts; and Louis Armstrong takes a train from New Orleans to Chicago, heralding the age of modern jazz. On other fronts, Einstein wins the Nobel Prize in Physics, insulin is introduced to treat diabetes, and the tomb of Tutankhamun is discovered. As Jackson writes, the sky was "blazing with a 'constellation of genius' of a kind that had never been known before, and has never since been rivaled." Constellation of Genius traces an unforgettable journey through the diaries of the actors, anthropologists, artists, dancers, designers, filmmakers, philosophers, playwrights, politicians, and scientists whose lives and works--over the course of twelve months--brought a seismic shift in the way we think, splitting the cultural world in two. Was this a matter of inevitability or of coincidence? That is for the reader of this romp, this hugely entertaining chronicle, to decide., Ezra Pound referred to 1922 as Year One of a new era. It was the year that began with the publication of James Joyce's Ulysses and ended with the publication of T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land , two works that were arguably the sun and moon of modernist literature, some would say of modernity itself. In Constellation of Genius , Kevin Jackson puts the titanic achievements of Joyce and Eliot in the context of the world in which their works first appeared. As Jackson writes in his introduction, On all sides, and in every field, there was a frenzy of innovation. It is in 1922 that Hitchcock directs his first feature; Kandinsky and Klee join the Bauhaus; the first AM radio station is launched; Walt Disney releases his first animated shorts; and Louis Armstrong takes a train from New Orleans to Chicago, heralding the age of modern jazz. On other fronts, Einstein wins the Nobel Prize in Physics, insulin is introduced to treat diabetes, and the tomb of Tutankhamun is discovered. As Jackson writes, the sky was blazing with a 'constellation of genius' of a kind that had never been known before, and has never since been rivaled. Constellation of Genius traces an unforgettable journey through the diaries of the actors, anthropologists, artists, dancers, designers, filmmakers, philosophers, playwrights, politicians, and scientists whose lives and works--over the course of twelve months--brought a seismic shift in the way we think, splitting the cultural world in two. Was this a matter of inevitability or of coincidence? That is for the reader of this romp, this hugely entertaining chronicle, to decide.
