Sascha Bru

European Avant-Gardes, 1905-1935 (eBook, PDF)

A Portable Guide

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Introduces the full range and depth of the early 20th-century European avant-gardesThis engaging introduction outlines the cultural and political contexts in which the avant-gardes operated, taking readers on a journey throughout the whole of Europe. It discusses the most salient features of the avant-gardes' work in all the arts, succinctly surveys the major avant-garde movements (cubism, futurism, expressionism, Dadaism, constructivism and many other -isms) and demonstrates the ways in which they transformed the face of all modern art forms. Clearly written, this book shows readers and students of modernism how and why the avant-gardes were a major force in modern art and culture.Key FeaturesAn up-to-date and thorough guide to the 'classic' European avant-gardes, from 1905 to 1935Covers all the arts practiced by the classic European avant-gardes - from painting and film, literature and sculpture, architecture and photography to theatre, dance and music - focusing on the specificity of each art form as well as on what united them Includes text-boxes, 100 illustrations, many in colour, and a user-friendly index/glossary

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. August 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780748695935
• Artikelnr.: 72430656

Autorenporträt

Sascha Bru is associate professor of general and comparative literature at the University of Leuven (Belgium). He has produced over a dozen books on European avant-gardes and modernisms, including Democracy, Law and the Modernist Avant-Gardes: Writing in the State of Exception (EUP, 2009) and the co-edited volume The Oxford Critical and Cultural History of Modernist Magazines: Europe, 1880-1940 (OUP, 2016).

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Illustrations
Introduction: Packing the Suitcase
Part I: Strategies And Tactics
1. A New Art, One and Undivided
2. A Total Art, Pure and Real
3. Anti-Art, Non-Art, Art!
Part ii: Spaces and Places
4. Cafés, Cities and Centre
5. New Men in Old Europe
6. A Global Avant-Garde
Part iii: Times and Temporalities
7. The Past Appropriated
8. The Plural Present
9. The Futures of Theory
Conclusion: En Route
Notes
Acknowledgements
Index.