THE LEGENDS OF THE MODERN

Beginning with an examination of the early modern artists Shakespeare, Michelangelo, and Cervantes, Didier Maleuvre demonstrates how many of the foundational works of modern culture were born not from the legendry of expressive freedom, originality, creativity, su bversion, or spiritual profundity but out of unease with these ideas. This ambivalence toward the modern has lain at the heart of ar tistic modernity from the late Renaissance onward, and the arts have since then shown both exhilaration and disappointment with thei r own cr...[Read more]