num_pages: 336
description: In Theorizing the Avant-Garde Richard Murphy mobilizes theories of the postmodern to challenge our understanding of the avant-garde and assesses its importance for the debates among theorists of postmodernism such as Jameson, Eagleton, Lyotard and Habermas. Murphy reconsiders the classic formulations of the avant-garde and investigates the relationship between art and politics via a discussion of Marcuse, Adorno and Benjamin. Combining close textual readings of a wide range of films as well as works of literature, this interdisciplinary project will appeal to all those interested in twentieth-century modernist movements and postmodernity.
language: English
title: Theorizing the Avant-Garde: Modernism, Expressionism, and the Problem of Postmodernity
titlecomplete: Theorizing the Avant-Garde: Modernism, Expressionism, and the Problem of Postmodernity (Literature, Culture, Theory, Series Number 32)
genres: Philosophy
ratings_count: 14
series: Literature, Culture, Theory
publisher: Cambridge University Press