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Pop Modernism
Juan A. Suarez
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Description for Pop Modernism
Paperback. Understanding the artistic bounty of modernist tensions over everyday life Num Pages: 336 pages, 14 photographs. BIC Classification: AC; APFA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 634.
Pop Modernism examines the popular roots of modernism in the United States. Drawing on a wide range of materials, including experimental movies, pop songs, photographs, and well-known poems and paintings, Juan A. Suárez reveals that experimental art in the early twentieth century was centrally concerned with the reinvention of everyday life. Suárez demonstrates how modernist writers and artists reworked pop images and sounds, old-fashioned and factory-made objects, city spaces, and the languages and styles of queer and ethnic “others.” Along the way, he reinterprets many of modernism’s major figures and argues for the centrality of relatively marginal ones, such as Vachel ... Read more
Pop Modernism examines the popular roots of modernism in the United States. Drawing on a wide range of materials, including experimental movies, pop songs, photographs, and well-known poems and paintings, Juan A. Suárez reveals that experimental art in the early twentieth century was centrally concerned with the reinvention of everyday life. Suárez demonstrates how modernist writers and artists reworked pop images and sounds, old-fashioned and factory-made objects, city spaces, and the languages and styles of queer and ethnic “others.” Along the way, he reinterprets many of modernism’s major figures and argues for the centrality of relatively marginal ones, such as Vachel ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252073922
SKU
V9780252073922
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About Juan A. Suarez
Juan A. Suárez teaches American Studies at the University of Murcia. He is the author of Bike Boys, Drag Queens, and Superstars: Avant-Garde, Mass Culture and Gay Identities in the 1960s Underground Cinema and Jim Jarmusch.
Reviews for Pop Modernism
“In all my years of reading, only once before have I had this kind of positive immediate reaction. I kept wondering, ‘How can Suárez possibly know so much, keep all his material straight, write about it with such flair, dig up so many corpses, and say something new about The Waste Land that makes it a less odious poem?’ A ... Read more