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Embattled Avant-Gardes: Modernism´s Resistance to Commodity Culture in Europe
Walter L. Adamson
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Description for Embattled Avant-Gardes: Modernism´s Resistance to Commodity Culture in Europe
Paperback. Offers an exploration of the avant-garde practices through which the modernist generations after 1900 resisted the rise of commodity culture as a threat to authentic cultural expression. This book charts the rise and fall of modernist aspirations in movements and individuals as diverse as Ruskin, Marinetti, Kandinsky, Bauhaus, and Purism. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: HB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 143 x 27. Weight in Grams: 538.
This sweeping work, at once a panoramic overview and an ambitious critical reinterpretation of European modernism, provides a bold new perspective on a movement that defined the cultural landscape of the early twentieth century. Walter L. Adamson embarks on a lucid, wide-ranging exploration of the avant-garde practices through which the modernist generations after 1900 resisted the rise of commodity culture as a threat to authentic cultural expression. Taking biographical approaches to numerous avant-garde leaders, Adamson charts the rise and fall of modernist aspirations in movements and individuals as diverse as Ruskin, Marinetti, Kandinsky, Bauhaus, Purism, and the art critic Herbert ... Read more
This sweeping work, at once a panoramic overview and an ambitious critical reinterpretation of European modernism, provides a bold new perspective on a movement that defined the cultural landscape of the early twentieth century. Walter L. Adamson embarks on a lucid, wide-ranging exploration of the avant-garde practices through which the modernist generations after 1900 resisted the rise of commodity culture as a threat to authentic cultural expression. Taking biographical approaches to numerous avant-garde leaders, Adamson charts the rise and fall of modernist aspirations in movements and individuals as diverse as Ruskin, Marinetti, Kandinsky, Bauhaus, Purism, and the art critic Herbert ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
448
Condition
New
Number of Pages
448
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520261532
SKU
V9780520261532
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About Walter L. Adamson
Walter L. Adamson is Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of History at Emory University where he teaches modern European intellectual and cultural history as well as modern Italian history. He is author of Avant-Garde Florence: From Modernism to Fascism. winner of the Howard Marraro Prize of the American Historical Association, and Hegemony and Revolution (UC Press), winner of the Howard Marraro ... Read more
Reviews for Embattled Avant-Gardes: Modernism´s Resistance to Commodity Culture in Europe
"This [is an] erudite, richly comparative study of avant-garde aesthetics and public engagement."
Laura Winkiel Modernism/Modernity
Laura Winkiel Modernism/Modernity