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The European Avant-garde: 1900-1940
Andrew J. Webber
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Paperback. This book offers an informative and accessible cultural history of the European avant--garde in its early twentieth--century heyday. It provides comparative coverage of cultural experimentation across the major European languages, including English, French, German, Russian, Spanish and Italian. Series: Polity Cultural History of Literature. Num Pages: 272 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 1D; ACX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 20. Weight in Grams: 400.
This book offers an informative and accessible cultural history of the European avant-garde in its early twentieth-century heyday. It provides comparative coverage of cultural experimentation across the major European languages, including English, French, German, Russian, Spanish and Italian.
This book offers an informative and accessible cultural history of the European avant-garde in its early twentieth-century heyday. It provides comparative coverage of cultural experimentation across the major European languages, including English, French, German, Russian, Spanish and Italian.
Andrew Webber presents striking examples to illustrate a time of unprecedented experiment and energetic performance in all aspects of culture. Readings of some of the most important and characteristic avant-garde texts, pictures and films are set against some of the key developments of the period: advances in technology and psychology; the rise of radical politics; the cultural ferment of the modern ... Read more
This volume will be an excellent textbook for courses on the avant-garde in departments of comparative cultural studies, literature and film studies.
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Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Series
Polity Cultural History of Literature
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780745627052
SKU
V9780745627052
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99-32
About Andrew J. Webber
Andrew J. Webber is University Senior Lecturer in German and Fellow of Churchill College at the University of Cambridge.
Reviews for The European Avant-garde: 1900-1940
‘“This is not a Cultural History of the Avant-Garde”: the section title, teasing Magritte’s pipe, says it perfectly. Like the famous painting, this book is more, namely a beautiful blend of history and analysis, criticism and theory, in my favorite phrase: cultural analysis. If, after reading it, it is as if one sees avant-garde all around, in contemporary culture, this ... Read more