Main entry:

Adamson, Walter L.

Title & Author:

Embattled avant-gardes : modernism's resistance to commodity culture in Europe / Walter L. Adamson.

Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2007.

Description:

xii, 435 pages ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Early avant-garde modernism -- Intellectuals, commodity culture, and religions of art in the nineteenth century -- F.T. Marinetti -- Guillaume Apollinaire -- Wassily Kandinsky -- Varieties of interwar modernism -- The rise and fall of design modernism: Bauhaus, De Stijl, and purism -- Futurism and its modernist rivals in fascist Italy -- André Breton's surrealism -- The critical modernism of Herbert Read.

Summary:

"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."--Publisher's website.

Resources:
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ISBN:

9780520252707 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0520252705 (cloth ; alk. paper)
1433708868
9781433708862
9780520261532 (pbk.)
0520261534 (pbk.)

Subject:

Avant Garde Musikgruppe
Europa
Arts, European 20th century.
Avant-garde (Aesthetics) Europe History 20th century.
Modernism (Aesthetics) Europe History 20th century.
Arts européens 20e siècle.
Modernisme (Esthétique) Europe Histoire 20e siècle.
15.70 history of Europe.
20.70 European art.
Arts, European.
Avant-garde (Aesthetics)
Modernism (Aesthetics)
Kunst
Avantgarde
Avant-garde.
Modernisme (cultuur)
Intellectuelen.
Beeldende kunstenaars.
Avant-garde (Aesthetics) Europe 20th century.
Art européen 20e siècle.
Avant-garde (esthétique) Europe 20e siècle.
Modernisme (esthétique) Europe 20e siècle.
Modernisme (art) Europe 20e siècle.
Modernisme (littérature) Europe 20e siècle.
Avant garde (Aesthetics) Europe History 20th century.
Europe.
Europa (geografie)

Form/genre:

History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 253295
Call No.: BIB 183025
Status: Available