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The Ethnic Avant-Garde: Minority Cultures and World Revolution
Steven S. Lee
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Hardback. Series: Modernist Latitudes. Num Pages: 304 pages, 18 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVU; 1KBB; 3JJG; DSBH; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 239 x 161 x 27. Weight in Grams: 532.
During the 1920s and 1930s, American minority artists and writers collaborated extensively with the Soviet avant-garde, seeking to build a revolutionary society that would end racial discrimination and advance progressive art. Making what Claude McKay called the magic pilgrimage to the Soviet Union, these intellectuals placed themselves at the forefront of modernism, using radical cultural and political experiments to reimagine identity and decenter the West. Shining rare light on these efforts, The Ethnic Avant-Garde makes a unique contribution to interwar literary, political, and art history, drawing extensively on Russian archives, travel narratives, and artistic exchanges to establish the ... Read more
During the 1920s and 1930s, American minority artists and writers collaborated extensively with the Soviet avant-garde, seeking to build a revolutionary society that would end racial discrimination and advance progressive art. Making what Claude McKay called the magic pilgrimage to the Soviet Union, these intellectuals placed themselves at the forefront of modernism, using radical cultural and political experiments to reimagine identity and decenter the West. Shining rare light on these efforts, The Ethnic Avant-Garde makes a unique contribution to interwar literary, political, and art history, drawing extensively on Russian archives, travel narratives, and artistic exchanges to establish the ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Series
Modernist Latitudes
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231173520
SKU
V9780231173520
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About Steven S. Lee
Steven S. Lee is an associate professor in the Department of English at the University of California, Berkeley.
Reviews for The Ethnic Avant-Garde: Minority Cultures and World Revolution
A prodigiously researched, insightful, and lucid book, Lee's work offers fresh perspective on the links between avant-garde aesthetics and vanguard politics. His scholarship is nothing short of transformative for those seeking new ways of configuring the relationships between ethnicity and cultural production between the wars.
Kate Baldwin, Northwestern University Beautifully written, deeply researched, and constantly engaging, The Ethnic Avant-Garde ... Read more
Kate Baldwin, Northwestern University Beautifully written, deeply researched, and constantly engaging, The Ethnic Avant-Garde ... Read more