TY - BOOK AU - Goldwyn,Adam J. TI - Mediterranean modernism: intercultural exchange and aesthetic development T2 - Mediterranean perspectives SN - 978-1-137-58927-9 U1 - 303.4821822 23E PY - 2016/// CY - New York PB - Palgrave Macmillan N2 - This book explores how Modernist movements all across the Mediterranean basin differed from those of other regions. The chapters show how the political and economic turmoil of a period marked by world war, revolution, decolonization, nationalism, and the rapid advance of new technologies compelled artists, writers, and other intellectuals to create a new hybrid Mediterranean Modernist aesthetic which sought to balance the tensions between local and foreign, tradition and innovation, and colonial and postcolonial ER -