FRACTURE

At the end of the First World War, the West was traumatized, impoverished, and facing a geopolitically uncertain future. In this boo k ,critically acclaimed historian Philipp Blom argues that, amid this uncertainty, Europeans and Americans directed their energies i nwards toward aesthetic and intellectual self-discovery. Europe produced strange new brands of art, science, and spiritualitysuch a s Surrealism and Art Decowhile flocking to exciting but dangerous new ideologies including communism and fascism. In America, the H arlem Rena...[Read more]