Buch(elektronisch)#12016
Mediterranean Modernism: Intercultural Exchange and Aesthetic Development
In: Mediterranean Perspectives
In: Springer eBook Collection
In: History
This book explores how Modernist movements all across the Mediterranean basin differed from those of other regions. The chapters show how the political and economic turmoil of a period marked by world war, revolution, decolonization, nationalism, and the rapid advance of new technologies compelled artists, writers, and other intellectuals to create a new hybrid Mediterranean Modernist aesthetic which sought to balance the tensions between local and foreign, tradition and innovation, and colonial and postcolonial