Solar Dance: Genius, Forgery and the Crisis of Truth in the Modern Age by Eksteins, Modris (2012) Hardcover

Solar Dance: Genius, Forgery and the Crisis of Truth in the Modern Age by Eksteins, Modris (2012) Hardcover by Eksteins, Modris. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780307398598.

In Solar Dance, acclaimed writer and scholar Modris Eksteins uses Vincent van Gogh as his lens for this brilliant survey of Western culture and politics in the last century. The long-awaited follow-up to Modris Eksteins internationally acclaimed Rites of Spring and Walking Since Daybreak. Now he has produced another thrilling, iconoclastic work of cultural history that is a trailblazing biography of an era--from the eve of the First World War and the rise of Hitler to the fall of the Berlin Wall--that illuminates our current world, with its cults of celebrity and the crisis of the authentic. Solar Dance is a penetrating examination of legitimacy and truth, fakery and pretence--highly relevant to all of us today.