Aristocracy and the modern imagination
By: Charles A. Riley II.
Publisher: University Press of New England
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Hanover, NH
Language: eng
Number of pages: 258
Subjects: Arts, European -- 19th century.; Arts, European -- 20th century.; Modernism (Art) -- Europe.; Artists -- Europe -- Psychology.; Aristocracy (Social class) -- Europe.
Description: Modernism generally signifies the efforts of late 19th century European painters, writers, musicians and philosophers who consciously broke with tradition. This is an examination of what that meant for those aristocrats who were also modernists.