Embattled Avant-Gardes: Modernism's Resistance to Commodity Culture in Europe

This sweeping work, at once a panoramic overview and an ambitious critical reinterpretation of European modernism, provides a bold new perspective on a movement that defined the cultural landscape of the early twentieth century. Walter L. Adamson embarks on a lucid, wide-ranging exploration of the avant-garde practices through which the modernist generations after 1900 resisted the rise of commodity culture as a threat to authentic cultural expression. Taking biographical approaches to numerous avant-garde leaders, Adamson charts the rise and fall of modernist aspirations in movements and individuals as diverse as Ruskin, Marinetti, Kandinsky, Bauhaus, Purism, and the art critic Herbert Read. In conclusion, Adamson rises to the defense of the modernists, suggesting that their ideas are relevant to current efforts to think through what it might mean to create a vibrant, aesthetically satisfying form of cultural democracy.

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Title of ebook: Embattled Avant-Gardes: Modernism's Resistance to Commodity Culture in Europe
ISBN: 9780520934115
parent-ISBN: 9780520252707
Publisher: University of California Press
Internet download file size: 1561 kb
Pages: 448
Published: 11-2007
Released online for download: 11-06-2007
Author of eBook: Adamson, Walter L.

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Modernism's Resistance to Commodity Culture in Europe

Preface................................................................................................ix Introduction...........................................................................................1 PART ONE EARLY AVANT-GARDE MODERNISM 1 Intellectuals, Commodity Culture, and Religions of Art in the Nineteenth Century.....................27 2 F. T. Marinetti......................................................................................77 3 Guillaume Apollinaire................................................................................110 4 Wassily Kandinsky....................................................................................143 PART TWO VARIETIES OF INTERWAR MODERNISM 5 The Rise and Fall of Design Modernism: Bauhaus, De Stijl, and Purism.................................181 6 Futurism and Its Modernist Rivals in Fascist Italy...................................................227 7 Andre Breton's Surrealism.......................................................... ... read full excerpt from Embattled Avant-Gardes: Modernism's Resistance to Commodity Culture in Europe ebook

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