04034cam a2200925 4500 527363584 TxAuBib 20211107120000.0 ||||||s2013||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781612193526 1612193528 B00DXKJ7HG Amazon 76001890-5065-452b-8eed-a42f400ce39a OverDrive (Reserve ID) 236412 236412 236412 1355390 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Illies, Florian. 1913 [Libby] : The Year Before the Storm. Melville House, 2013. War. duchamp. pablo. Rilke. art history. Kafka. European History. Adolf Hitler. wittgenstein. World History. hesse. einstein. Sigmund Freud. Picasso. Military. Jung. art. modern art. Carl Jung. world war 1. Albert Einstein. Military History. Louis Armstrong. World War I. hitler. Stalin. freud. virginia woolf. Franz Kafka. proust. Thomas Mann. Rainer Maria Rilke. Edvard Munch. Marcel Proust. Max Weber. Adorno. gifts for dad. herman hesse. ludwig wittgenstein. marcel duchamp. paul klee. remembrance of things past. art books. dad gifts. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 4095kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Art. History. Military. Nonfiction. HTML:<b>An International Bestseller</b><br /> "An absolute gem of a book." —<i>The Observer<br /></i><b>Just before one of its darkest moments came the twentieth century's most exciting year . . .<br /></b><br /> It was the year Henry Ford first put a conveyer belt in his car factory, and the year Louis Armstrong first picked up a trumpet. It was the year Charlie Chaplin signed his first movie contract, and Coco Chanel and Prada opened their first dress shops. It was the year Proust began his opus, Stravinsky wrote <i>The Rite of Spring</i>, and the first Armory Show in New York introduced the world to Picasso and the world of abstract art. It was the year the recreational drug now known as ecstasy was invented.<br /> It was 1913, the year before the world plunged into the catastrophic darkness of World War I.<br /> In a witty yet moving narrative that progresses month by month through the year, and is interspersed with numerous photos and documentary artifacts (such as Kafka's love letters), Florian Illies ignores the conventions of the stodgy tome so common in "one year" histories. Forefronting cultural matters as much as politics, he delivers a charming and riveting tale of a world full of hope and unlimited possibility, peopled with amazing characters and radical politics, bristling with new art and new technology . . . even as ominous storm clouds began to gather. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2021-11-04 17:40:22. Whiteside, Shaun. Lee Searle, Jamie. https://samples.overdrive.com/1913-760018?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/1913-760018?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/1913-760018?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)