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This book examines the many functions of paper in the fine art and aesthetics of the early twentieth-century modernist or historic avant-garde (expressionism, cubism, futurism, Dadaism, surrealism, constructivism and many…
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Sascha Bru
This is the first book to look at the ties between European modernism and democracy in a cross-cultural manner.
This engaging introduction outlines the cultural and political contexts in which the avant-gardes operated, taking readers on a journey throughout the whole of Europe.
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Wittgenstein took literature extremely seriously and did not consider it of secondary importance. However, academic philosophy often shies away from the literary inflection of his philosophy. This book intends to…
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Literature Now provides a thought-provoking argument as well as an authoritative exploration of the key terms of literary studies. It will appeal to anyone who wants to explore theoretical issues…
The first full study of the role of ‘little magazines’ and their contribution to the making of artistic modernism and the avant-garde across Europe, this volume is a major scholarly…
The first full study of the role of 'little magazines' and their contribution to the making of artistic modernism and the avant-garde across Europe, this volume is a major scholarly…
This volume proposes an in-depth exploration of the materiality of art and writing in modernism and the avant-garde. The collection sheds light on the full range and import of the…
The historical avant-gardes defined themselves largely in terms of their relationship to various versions of realism. At first glance modernism primarily seems to take a counter-position against realism, yet a…
The history of Europe's avant-garde and modernism follows a crisis-laden trajectory, and notions of crisis have in turn long charged the study of their practices. The seventh volume in the…
In this ‘history from below’ of what is one of Europe’s most famous and important avant-garde movements, large-scale questions on the history of Futurism are explored by focusing on objects…
This volume offers a unique and fresh perspective on Italian Futurism by approaching it, for the first time, through the lens of micro-histories.
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The first volume of the new series European Avant-Garde and Modernism Studies focuses on the relation between the avant-garde, modernism and Europe.
The effort to go beyond given knowledge in different domains - artistic, scientific, political, metaphysical - is a characteristic driving force in modernism and the avant-gardes. The fifth EAM volume…
The History of Futurism: The Precursors, Protagonists, and Legacies addresses the history and legacy of what is generally seen as the founding avante-garde movement of the twentieth century. Geert Buelens…
