Cultural Calendar of the 20th Century

Download or read book Cultural Calendar of the 20th Century written by Edward Lucie-Smith and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The extraordinary pace of events in the twentieth century has been contusing as well as exciting. This is particularly so in the arts, where even the accepted definition of a work of art has often broken down completely, while the numerous styles and "isms" in literature, drama, music, the visual arts, cinema and other disciplines have been invented and discarded in quick succession. This book is a chronology of change: it sets the immense variety of twentieth-century cultural activity, year by year, against the background of world events. It does so not only through a succinct and authoritative narrative, but also by taking each year in turn and presenting a list of the major works in each art form created during that year. This is set against a concurrent general events of political, social or cultural significance. Each year is also individually illustrated, the pictures having been carefully selected so that they evoke the styles and contrasts of the time."--book jacket.