Militant modernism
By: Owen Hatherley
Publisher: O Books
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Winchester, England; Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 146
ISBN-13: 9781846941764
Subjects: Modern movement (Architecture); Modernism (Art); Arts; Themes, motives; Modernism (Aesthetics)
Description: "Militant Modernism argues for a Modernism of everyday life, immersed in questions of socialism, sexual politics and technology. It features new readings of some familiar names - Bertolt Brecht, Le Corbusier, Vladimir Mayakovsky - and much more on the lesser known, quotidian modernists of the 20th century. The chapters range from a study of industrial and brutalist aesthetics in Britain, Russian Constructivism in architecture, the Sexpol of Wilhelm Reich in film and design, and the alienation effects of Brecht and Hanns Eisler on record and on screen. Against the world of 'there is no alternative', this book talks about things we haven't done yet, in the past tense." -- Publisher's description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The Brutishness of British modernism; title: A hole into the future; title: Revolutionary orgasm problems; title: Alienation affects.