How Long to Read The Five Paradoxes of Modernity

How Long Does it Take to Read The Five Paradoxes of Modernity?

It takes the average reader 2 hours and 43 minutes to read The Five Paradoxes of Modernity by Antoine Compagnon

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Early in the nineteenth century Hegel pronounced that the greatness of art was past and that art was at an end. Is it this end, Antoine Compagnon asks, that we are now witnessing, almost two centuries later? Or is the present postmodern moment a result of the failure of doctrines to "explain" art, that is, to give it an "end" and to construe its history as "progress"? Is the postmodern the cutting edge of the modern or a breaking away from it? In this elegant, highly readable book, Compagnon confronts the postmodern's co-optation of the modern by tracing paradoxical elements in the aesthetic of the new - particularly the aesthetic and moral contradictions built into the enthusiasm for the new - in the "five paradoxes of modernity": the superstition of the new, the religion of the future, the mania for theory, the appeal to mass culture, and the passion for repudiation. Beginning with the writings of Nietzsche and Baudelaire, Compagnon considers Manet's Dejeuner sur l'herbe and Olympia, Apollinaire's calligrams, Duchamp's readymades, Proust's Remembrance of Things Past, and Warhol's silkscreens, in addition to the writings of Kandinsky, Mondrian, Venturi, and Calinescu, The analysis and clarification continues with discussions of conformism and nonconformism, modernity versus the avant-garde, the distinction between the aesthetic and political avant-garde, theoretical terrorism, the movement of the center of art from Paris to New York after 1945, and the modern's incorporation of popular culture to "purify [art] of its conventions." These insightful discussions illuminate the works of major American and European architects, critics, novelists, painters, and poets who emblematize each of the five paradoxes of modernity. Compagnon, a French citizen and an American scholar, offers an expansive and invaluable perspective on the divergent meanings of the modern and the postmodern on both sides of the Atlantic.

How long is The Five Paradoxes of Modernity?

The Five Paradoxes of Modernity by Antoine Compagnon is 158 pages long, and a total of 40,764 words.

This makes it 53% the length of the average book. It also has 50% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Five Paradoxes of Modernity Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 3 hours and 42 minutes to read The Five Paradoxes of Modernity aloud.

What Reading Level is The Five Paradoxes of Modernity?

The Five Paradoxes of Modernity is suitable for students ages 10 and up.

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