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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
