On Growth and Form | Historical Context
Introduction
The character of life in 1914, while outwardly chaotic, was driven by what Dr. Alan Axelrod, author of The Complete Idiot’s Guide to 20th Century History, termed an ‘‘inner order, a logic all its own, a myriad of secret alliances that linked the fate of one nation to that of another.’’ It was a world on the verge of explosion.
Noise and Art
Igor Stravinsky’s work was an expression of chaos out of logic. Stravinsky was a budding young Russian composer who created scores for the radical ballet The Rite of Spring in...
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