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Category : Cattle
Languages : en
Pages : 890
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Constellation of Genius
Author: Kevin Jackson
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 0374710333
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 419
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Ezra Pound referred to 1922 as Year One of a new era. It was the year that began with the publication of James Joyce's Ulysses and ended with the publication of T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land, two works that were arguably "the sun and moon" of modernist literature, some would say of modernity itself. In Constellation of Genius, Kevin Jackson puts the titanic achievements of Joyce and Eliot in the context of the world in which their works first appeared. As Jackson writes in his introduction, "On all sides, and in every field, there was a frenzy of innovation." It is in 1922 that Hitchcock directs his first feature; Kandinsky and Klee join the Bauhaus; the first AM radio station is launched; Walt Disney releases his first animated shorts; and Louis Armstrong takes a train from New Orleans to Chicago, heralding the age of modern jazz. On other fronts, Einstein wins the Nobel Prize in Physics, insulin is introduced to treat diabetes, and the tomb of Tutankhamun is discovered. As Jackson writes, the sky was "blazing with a ‘constellation of genius' of a kind that had never been known before, and has never since been rivaled." Constellation of Genius traces an unforgettable journey through the diaries of the actors, anthropologists, artists, dancers, designers, filmmakers, philosophers, playwrights, politicians, and scientists whose lives and works—over the course of twelve months—brought a seismic shift in the way we think, splitting the cultural world in two. Was this a matter of inevitability or of coincidence? That is for the reader of this romp, this hugely entertaining chronicle, to decide.
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 0374710333
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 419
Book Description
Ezra Pound referred to 1922 as Year One of a new era. It was the year that began with the publication of James Joyce's Ulysses and ended with the publication of T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land, two works that were arguably "the sun and moon" of modernist literature, some would say of modernity itself. In Constellation of Genius, Kevin Jackson puts the titanic achievements of Joyce and Eliot in the context of the world in which their works first appeared. As Jackson writes in his introduction, "On all sides, and in every field, there was a frenzy of innovation." It is in 1922 that Hitchcock directs his first feature; Kandinsky and Klee join the Bauhaus; the first AM radio station is launched; Walt Disney releases his first animated shorts; and Louis Armstrong takes a train from New Orleans to Chicago, heralding the age of modern jazz. On other fronts, Einstein wins the Nobel Prize in Physics, insulin is introduced to treat diabetes, and the tomb of Tutankhamun is discovered. As Jackson writes, the sky was "blazing with a ‘constellation of genius' of a kind that had never been known before, and has never since been rivaled." Constellation of Genius traces an unforgettable journey through the diaries of the actors, anthropologists, artists, dancers, designers, filmmakers, philosophers, playwrights, politicians, and scientists whose lives and works—over the course of twelve months—brought a seismic shift in the way we think, splitting the cultural world in two. Was this a matter of inevitability or of coincidence? That is for the reader of this romp, this hugely entertaining chronicle, to decide.
The Breeder and Dairyman
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Category : Cattle
Languages : en
Pages : 890
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Category : Cattle
Languages : en
Pages : 890
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The Best Plays of ... and the Year Book of the Drama in America
Author: Garrison P. Sherwood
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Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 632
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Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 632
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The New International Year Book
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 882
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 882
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Burns Mantle Best Plays and the Year Book of the Drama in America
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Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 752
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Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 752
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Health News
Author: New York (State). Department of Health
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Category : Public health
Languages : en
Pages : 844
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Category : Public health
Languages : en
Pages : 844
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Quarterly Bulletin of the Providence Public Library
Author: Providence Public Library (R.I.)
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Category : Classified catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 694
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Category : Classified catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 694
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The Best Plays of ...
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Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 590
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Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 590
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Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society of England
Author: Royal Agricultural Society of England
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 500
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 500
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Agricultural Engineering
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Category : Agricultural engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 392
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Category : Agricultural engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 392
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