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Cold Modernism:

Literature, Fashion, Art
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Explores a significant but overlooked aspect of early twentieth-century modernism, one that focuses on surface appearance rather than interiority or psychological depth. Looks at the writers Wyndham Lewis and Mina Loy, the artists Balthus and Hans Bellmer, and the fashion designer Coco Chanel.


Contents

Acknowledgments

List of Illustrations

Introduction: Nothing Personal

1 Amuse-Bouche

2 Waspish Segments

Interregnum I: A Doll Is Being Beaten

3 Modernism and the Little Black Dress

4 Loy, Inc.

Interregnum II: The Legs of Balthus

Epilogue: Imitation and Its Discontents

Notes

Bibliography

Index


“At its considerable best, Burstein’s book makes a major claim on our attention as a lunar Baedeker to the dark side of modernism. It is a tightly argued and original case for considering literature, fine art, and manufactured objects together, and it helps one to understand how ahumanism might reflect the relationship between consciousness and individuality on one hand and the very idea of humanism on the other. Burstein’s book should help bring her obdurately ahuman aesthetic and commercial subjects to further critical attention. It may seem paradoxical to say this, but never mind: however chilly, artificial, and (in the best sense) superficial its subject matter, Cold Modernism deserves a warm welcome.”

—Scott W. Klein, Modernism/Modernity

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