The Invention of Politics in the European Avant-Garde (1906-1940)

The Invention of Politics in the European Avant-Garde (1906-1940)
Title The Invention of Politics in the European Avant-Garde (1906-1940) PDF eBook
Author
Publisher BRILL
Pages 290
Release 2016-08-01
Genre History
ISBN 9401202524

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In 1906, for the first time in his life, F.T. Marinetti connected the term ‘avant-garde’ with the idea of the future, thus paving the way for what is now commonly called the ‘modernist’ or ‘historical avant-garde’. Since 1906 the ties between the early twentieth-century European aesthetic vanguard and politics have been a matter of debate. With a century gone by, The Invention of Politics in the European Avant-Garde takes stock of this debate. Opening with a critical introduction to the vast research archive on the subject, this book proposes to view the avant-garde as a political force in its own right that may have produced solutions to problems irresolvable within its democratic political constellation. In a series of essays that combine close readings of texts and plastic works with a thorough knowledge of their political context, the book looks at avant-garde works as media producing political thought and experience. Covering the canonised avant-garde movements of Futurism, Expressionism, Dadaism and Surrealism, but also focussing on the avant-garde in Europe’s geographical outskirts, this book will appeal to all those interested in the modernist avant-garde.

Urban Mindscapes of Europe

Urban Mindscapes of Europe
Title Urban Mindscapes of Europe PDF eBook
Author Godela Weiss-Sussex
Publisher Rodopi
Pages 305
Release 2006
Genre Art
ISBN 9042021047

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Urban mindscapes are structures of thinking about a city, built on conceptualisations of the city's physical landscape as well as on its image as transported through cultural representation, memory and imagination. This book pursues three main strands of inquiry in its exploration of these 'landscapes of the mind' in a European context. The first strand concerns the theory and methodology of researching urban mindscapes and urban 'imaginaries'. The second strand investigates some of the representations, symbols and collective images that feed into our understanding of European cities. It discusses representations of the city in literature, film, television and other cultural forms, which, in James Donald's phrase, constitute 'archives of urban images'. The third and last section of the volume concentrates on the relationship between the collective mindscapes of cities, urban policy and the practice of city marketing.

German-speaking Exiles in Ireland 1933-1945

German-speaking Exiles in Ireland 1933-1945
Title German-speaking Exiles in Ireland 1933-1945 PDF eBook
Author Gisela M. B. Holfter
Publisher Rodopi
Pages 321
Release 2006
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 9042020334

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The European Avant-Garde

The European Avant-Garde
Title The European Avant-Garde PDF eBook
Author Selena Daly
Publisher Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Pages 260
Release 2013-02-21
Genre Art
ISBN 1443846910

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The European Avant-Garde: Text and Image is an interdisciplinary collection of thirteen essays relating to the study of European Avant-Garde movements between 1900 and 1940. The essays cover both literary and artistic subjects, across geographical, linguistic and disciplinary boundaries. Various aspects of the English, Irish, German, French, Italian, Spanish, and Polish avant-gardes are explored, examining both diverse literary genres such as prose, poetry and drama, and specific avant-garde movements such as Futurism and Surrealism. The volume includes a lengthy introductory essay by Prof. John J. White, Emeritus Professor of German and Comparative Literature at King’s College London. Avant-garde studies can be enhanced and developed through dialogue with other disciplines, such as translation, gender, exile and comparative studies. Thus, the volume is divided into four sections: Representations of the Body; Translating the Avant-Garde, Identity and Exile; and Comparative Perspectives and the Legacy of the Avant-Garde.

The Community in Avant-Garde Literature and Politics

The Community in Avant-Garde Literature and Politics
Title The Community in Avant-Garde Literature and Politics PDF eBook
Author Zrinka Božić
Publisher Springer Nature
Pages 175
Release 2022-09-30
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 3031115570

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This book rethinks the concept of community taking Jean-Luc Nancy’s influential essay “La communauté désoeuvrée” as its starting point, tracing subsequent scholarship on community and adding new insights on avant-garde aesthetics and politics. Extensively exploring the communitarian dimension of avant-garde aesthetics and politics (focusing on artistic groups, intellectual circles and theoretical collectives), the author aims to bring literature and art into a philosophical examination of the paradoxical and complex idea of community.

A Cultural History of the Avant-Garde in the Nordic Countries 1925-1950

A Cultural History of the Avant-Garde in the Nordic Countries 1925-1950
Title A Cultural History of the Avant-Garde in the Nordic Countries 1925-1950 PDF eBook
Author
Publisher BRILL
Pages 992
Release 2019-02-04
Genre Art
ISBN 900438829X

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A Cultural History of the Avant-Garde in the Nordic Countries 1925-1950 is the first publication to deal with the avant-garde in the Nordic countries in this period. The essays cover a wide range of avant-garde manifestations: literature, visual arts, theatre, architecture and design, film, radio, body culture and magazines. It is the first major historical work to consider the Nordic avant-garde in a transnational perspective that includes all the arts and to discuss the role of the avant-garde not only within the aesthetic field but in a broader cultural and political context: the pre-war and wartime responses to international developments, the new cultural institutions, sexual politics, the impact of refugees and the new start after the war.

Madrid's Forgotten Avant-Garde

Madrid's Forgotten Avant-Garde
Title Madrid's Forgotten Avant-Garde PDF eBook
Author Silvina Schammah Gesser
Publisher Liverpool University Press
Pages 361
Release 2016-04-01
Genre Art
ISBN 1836240929

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This book explores the role played by artists and intellectuals who constructed and disseminated various competing images of national identity which polarized Spanish society prior to the Civil War. The convergence of modern and essentialist discourses and practices, especially in literature and poetry, in what is conventionally called in Spanish letters "The Generation of '27", created fissures between competing views of aesthetics and ideology that cut across political affiliation. Silvina Schammah exposes the paradoxes facing Madrid's cultural vanguards, as they were torn by their ambition for universality, cosmopolitanism and transcendence on the one hand and by the centripetal forces of nationalistic ideologies on the other. Taking upon themselves roles to become the disseminators and populizers of radical positions and world-views first elaborated and conducted by the young urban intelligentsia, their proposed aim of incorporating diverse identities embedded in different cultural constructions and discourse was to have very real and tragic consequences as political and intellectual lines polarized in the years prior to the Spanish Civil War.