Two more books explored as part of the my online discussion of Modernism and the critical analysis and periodization of this cultural phenomenon. First we examine Poggioli's work on the Avant-garde and its role as the knife edge of Modernism, then moving on to Berman's broader discussion of Modernity as a phenomenon emergent in the 17th and 18th Centuries, achieving maturity in the 19th, and falling into a kind of ossified decadence in the 20th, it's discomforting fatuity in the hands of the Postmodernists at the end of that century.
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