Bibliograph

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

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

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

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government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Embattled avant-gardes

Nature of contents

dictionariesbibliography

Oclc number

182630745

Responsibility statement

Walter L. Adamson

Sub title

modernism's resistance to commodity culture in Europe

Summary

Gives an overview and a reinterpretation of European modernism. This work provides a fresh perspective on a movement that defined the cultural landscape of the early twentieth century. Taking biographical approaches to various avant-garde leaders, it also charts the rise and fall of modernist aspirations in movements and individuals

Table Of Contents

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

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