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All That Is Solid Melts Into Air: The Experience of Modernity

All That Is Solid Melts into Airis a dazzling exploration of modern consciousness. In this unparalleled book, Marshall Berman takes account of the social changes that swept millions of people into the capitalist world and the impact of modernism on art, literature and architecture. This new edition contains an updated preface addressing the critical role the onset of modernism played in popular democratic upheavals in the late 1920s.

Audience
adult
Length
long · 443 pages
Form
essays

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