| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 280 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Avant-garde critical studies, 1879-6419 ; volume 38 |
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Avant garde critical studies ; 38.
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| Contents |
Introduction / Carolin Kosuch -- 1. Frictions: Aesthetics or Politics. The Symbolist Movement: Anarchism and the Avant-Garde in Fin de Siècle France / Richard Shryock -- Egoism, Homosexuality, and Joie de vivre: Jacob Epstein's Tomb of Oscar Wilde / Mark Antliff -- A Politics of Technique: Fauvism and Anarchist Individualism / Patricia Leighten -- Anti-Art? Dada and Anarchy / Daniela Padularosa -- 2. Fractions: Declining, Pioneering, Redeeming. Decadent Anarchism, Anarchistic Decadence: Contradictory Cultures, Complementary Politics / David Weir -- 'We Are Too Far Ahead to be Understood': Vanguard Creation in Fin de Siècle Anarchism / Carolin Kosuch -- 'Theocratic Anarchism'? Walter Benjamin and Gershom Scholem in Switzerland: Anarchism, Messianism and the Avant-Garde / Gabriele Guerra -- 3. Focal Points: Art and Education in Local and Transnational Settings -- Syndicalism and Art in France before 1914: Propaganda and Prefiguration / Constance Bantman -- Anarchism, Geography and Painting: Élisée Reclus and Social Art / Federico Ferretti -- Teaching Revolution through Art? Anarchism, the Avant-garde and Education Critically Revisited / Piotr Laskowski |
| Summary |
Anarchism and the Avant-Garde: Radical Arts and Politics in Perspective contributes to the continuing debate on the encounter of the classical anarchisms (1860s−1940s) and the artistic and literary avant-gardes of the same period, probing its dimensions and limits. Case studies on Dadaism, decadence, fauvism, neo-impressionism, symbolism, and various anarchisms explore the influence anarchism had on the avant-gardes and reflect on avant-garde tendencies within anarchism. This volume also explores the divergence of anarchism and the avant-gardes. It offers a rich examination of politics and arts, and it complements an ongoing discourse with theoretical tools to better assess the aesthetic, social, and political cross-pollination that took place between the avant-gardes and the anarchists in Europe.-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| SUBJECT |
Avant Garde Musikgruppe gnd |
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Avant-garde (Aesthetics) -- Political aspects
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Anarchism and art.
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Arts -- Political aspects
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Art -- Political aspects.
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Avant-garde (Aesthetics) -- History -- 19th century
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Avant-garde (Aesthetics) -- History -- 20th century
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Anarchism -- History
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Anarchism
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Anarchismus
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Gesellschaftskritik
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Künste
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Kunst
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Literatur
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Regelverstoß
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Kosuch, Carolin, 1981- editor.
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| ISBN |
9789004410428 |
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9004410422 |
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