Avant-garde fascism : the mobilization of myth, art, and culture in France, 1909-1939 / Mark Antliff.

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Antliff, Mark, 1957-

Title & Author:

Avant-garde fascism : the mobilization of myth, art, and culture in France, 1909-1939 / Mark Antliff.

Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2007.

Description:

xv, 352 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Fascism, modernism and modernity -- The Jew as anti-artist : Georges Sorel and the aesthetics of the anti- Enlightenment -- La Cité française : Georges Valois, Le Corbusier and fascist theories of urbanism -- Machine primitives : Philippe Lamour and the fascist cult of youth -- Classical violence : Thierry Maulnier and the legacy of the Cercle Proudhon.

Summary:

Investigating the central role that theories of the visual arts and creativity played in the development of fascism in France, Mark Antliff examines the aesthetic dimension of fascist myth-making within the history of the avant-garde.

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ISBN:

9780822340157 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0822340151 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780822340348 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
0822340348 (pbk. ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Sorel, Georges, 1847-1922.
Valois, Georges, 1878-1945.
Le Corbusier.
Lamour, Philippe, 1903-1992.
Maulnier, Thierry, 1909-1988.
Avant Garde Musikgruppe
Avant-garde (Aesthetics) France History 20th century.
Fascism and art France History 20th century.
Fascism and culture France History 20th century.
Fascism France History 20th century.
Avant-garde (Esthétique) France Histoire 20e siècle.
Fascisme et art France Histoire 20e siècle.
Fascisme et culture France Histoire 20e siècle.
Fascisme France Histoire 20e siècle.
08.41 esthetics.
Avant-garde (Aesthetics)
Civilization
Fascism
Fascism and art
Fascism and culture
Faschismus
Kunst
Avantgarde
Fascisme.
Esthetica.
Avant-garde (Aesthetics) France 20th century.
Fascism France History.
France Civilization 20th century.
France Civilisation 20e siècle.
France
Frankreich
Frankrijk.

Form/genre:

History

Holdings:

Location: Library main 253280
Call No.: BIB 183003
Status: Available

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