Exam boards: Edexcel, AQA, OCR, WJEC
Modernism in Focus brings together challenging but rewarding works by Picasso, Matisse, Joyce, Eliot, Stravinsky, Debussy and Schoenberg, examines what they have in common and how they define Modernism.
Suitable for both students and teachers, this guide provides some much needed insight into Modernists’ apparent obsession with strange chords, characters and colours, discord, sex, madness and violence. It also takes a look at tonality, atonality, expressionism and serialism from a new perspective.