Embattled avant-gardes
Subtitle: modernism's resistance to commodity culture in Europe
By: Walter L. Adamson.
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780520252707
Subjects: Arts, European -- 20th century; Avant garde (Aesthetics) -- Europe -- History -- 20th century; Modernism (Aesthetics) -- Europe -- History -- 20th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Early avant-garde modernism; title: Intellectuals, commodity culture, and religions of art in the nineteenth century; title: F.T. Marinetti; title: Guillaume Apollinaire; title: Wassily Kandinsky; title: Varieties of interwar modernism; title: Rise and fall of design modernism: Bauhaus, De Stijl, and purism; title: Futurism and its modernist rivals in fascist Italy; title: André Breton's surrealism; title: Critical modernism of Herbert Read.