European Avant-Gardes, 1905-1935

A Portable Guide

Inbunden, Engelska, 2018

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Introduces the full range and depth of the early 20th-century European avant-gardesThis engaging introduction outlines the cultural and political contexts in which the avant-gardes operated, taking readers on a journey throughout the whole of Europe. It discusses the most salient features of the avant-gardes’ work in all the arts, succinctly surveys the major avant-garde movements (cubism, futurism, expressionism, Dadaism, constructivism and many other –isms) and demonstrates the ways in which they transformed the face of all modern art forms. Clearly written, this book shows readers and students of modernism how and why the avant-gardes were a major force in modern art and culture.Key FeaturesAn up-to-date and thorough guide to the ‘classic’ European avant-gardes, from 1905 to 1935Covers all the arts practiced by the classic European avant-gardes – from painting and film, literature and sculpture, architecture and photography to theatre, dance and music – focusing on the specificity of each art form as well as on what united them Includes text-boxes, 100 illustrations, many in colour, and a user-friendly index/glossary

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2018-09-06
Mått:156 x 234 x 23 mm
Vikt:522 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:280
Förlag:Edinburgh University Press
ISBN:9780748695904

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Sascha Bru is professor at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Leuven (Belgium). He has produced over a dozen books on European avant-gardes and modernisms, including Democracy, Law and the Modernist Avant-Gardes: Writing in the State of Exception (EUP, 2009) and the co-edited volume The Oxford Critical and Cultural History of Modernist Magazines: Europe, 1880-1940 (OUP, 2016).

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An impressive tour de force which will be welcomed by everyone with an interest in the history of the avant-garde. This book will serve both as introductory survey and an extremely useful tool for teaching. But it is so much more than that. What sets this book apart are perhaps three things: the author is intimately familiar with sources in different languages and cultures; he wears his knowledge and scholarship lightly; and he allows his subject – the European avant-gardes – to dictate the methods and approaches, so that this book genuinely embodies a rigorous, and far from capricious, pluralism.

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Preface IllustrationsIntroduction: Packing the SuitcasePart I: Strategies And TacticsChapter 1: A New Art, One and UndividedChapter 2: A Total Art, Pure and RealChapter 3: Anti-Art, Non-Art, Art! Part ii: Spaces and PlacesChapter 4: Cafés, Cities and CentreChapter 5: New Men in Old Europe Chapter 6: A Global Avant-GardePart iii: Times and TemporalitiesChapter 7: The Past Appropriated Chapter 8: The Plural Present Chapter 9: The Futures of TheoryConclusion: En RouteNotes AcknowledgementsIndex