Aesthetic Revolutions and Twentieth-Century Avant-Garde Movements

Herausgeber: Erjavec, Ales

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This collection categorizes aesthetic avant-garde art as art that seeks to politically transform society and argues that such art is essential for political revolution. It provides seven in-depth analyses of twentieth-century aesthetic avant-garde art movements and examines them in relation to revolutionary politics.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Juni 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 594g
• ISBN-13: 9780822358619
• ISBN-10: 0822358611
• Artikelnr.: 41199912

Autorenporträt

Ale Erjavec, editor

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations vii
 Acknowledgments xv
Introduction. Aleš Erjavec 1
1. Politics as the Art of the Impossible: The Heteronomy of Italian
Futurist Art-Action / Sascha Bru 19
2. 5 X 5 = 25? The Science of Constructivism / John E. Bowlt 42
3. Convulsive Beauty: Surrealism as Aesthetic Revolution / Raymond Spiteri
80
4. Aesthetic Avant-Gardes and Revolutionary Movements from Modern Latin
America / David Craven 113
5. All along the Watchtower: Aesthetic Revolution in the United States
during the 1960s / Tyrus Miller 145
6. From Unitary Urbanism to the Society of the Spectacle: The Situationist
Aesthetic Revolution / Raymond Spiteri 178
7. NSK: Cricial Phenomenology of the State / Miško Šuvakovic 215
Conclusion. Avant-Gardes, Revolutions, and Aesthetics / Aleš Erjavec 255
Bibliography 287
Contributors 311
Index 313