Modern Times, Modern Places

The world has changed in the twentieth century more radically and rapidly than ever before. All our previous assumptions have been overturned; science and technology have tom us from the past, promising even to redesign humanity. In this book of monumental authority, breadth, and acuity, the celebrated critic Peter Conrad brilliantly explores modern times through the arts and identifies the modern places — Vienna, Moscow, Paris, Berlin, New York, Los Angeles, Tokyo — that have been the successive frontiers of change and experimentation.

• Author
• Peter Conrad

• Format
• hardcover

• Pages
• 752

• Publisher
• Knopf

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9780375401138

• Genres
• history, art, cultural, architecture, science

• Release date
• 1999