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Title Aesthetic revolutions and twentieth-century avant-garde movements / Ales̆ Erjavec, editor
Published Durham ; London : Duke University Press, 2015
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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 322 pages) : illustrations
Contents Politics as the art of the impossible: the heteronomy of Italian futurist art-action / Sascha Bru -- 5x5 = 25? The science of constructivism / John E. Bowlt -- Convulsive beauty: surrealism as aesthetic revolution / Raymond Spiteri -- Aesthetic avant-gardes and revolutionary movements from modern Latin America / David Craven -- All along the watchtower: aesthetic revolution in the United States during the 1960s / Tyrus Miller -- From unitary urbanism to the society of the spectacle: the situationist aesthetic revolution / Raymond Spiteri -- NSK: critical phenomenology of the state / Mis̆ko S̆uvaković -- Avant-gardes, revolutions, and aesthetics
Summary This collection categorizes aesthetic avant-garde art as art that seeks to politically transform society and argues that such art is essential for political revolution. It provides seven in-depth analyses of twentieth-century aesthetic avant-garde art movements and examines them in relation to revolutionary politics
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-312) and index
Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
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SUBJECT Avant Garde Musikgruppe gnd
Subject Avant-garde (Aesthetics) -- History -- 20th century
Aesthetics -- Political aspects
ART -- Performance.
ART -- Reference.
ART -- Criticism & Theory.
Aesthetics -- Political aspects
Avant-garde (Aesthetics)
Ästhetik
Avantgarde (estetik)
Estetik -- politiska aspekter.
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Erjavec, Aleš, editor.
ISBN 9780822375661
0822375664