Modernism at the barricades
Subtitle: aesthetics, politics, Utopia
By: Stephen Eric Bronner
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 190
ISBN-13: 9780231158220; 9780231530880
Subjects: Modern Arts; History; Arts and society; Modern Aesthetics
Description: " ... Features chapters on expressionism, futurism, surrealism, and revolutionary art and includes fresh perspectives on the work of Arnold Schoenberg, Wassily Kandinsky, and Emil Nolde, among others. The volume illuminates an international avant-garde intent on resisting bureaucracy, standardization, scientific rationality, and the increasing commodification of mass culture"--Jacket, p. [2].
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p.         ) and index.
Table of contents: title: The modernist impulse: subjectivity, resistance, freedom; title: Modernism in context: notes for a political aesthetic; title: Experiencing modernism: a short history of expressionist painting; title: The modernist spirit: on the correspondence between Arnold Schoenberg and Wassily Kandinsky; title: Modernism in motion: F.T. Marinetti and Italian futurism; title: Ecstatic modernism: the paintings of Emil Nolde; title: Modernism, surrealism, and the political imaginary; title: Modernism changes the world: the Russian avant-garde and the revolution; title: Modernists in power: the literati and the Bavarian revolution; title: Exhibiting modernism: Paris and Berlin, 1900-1933; title: The modernist adventure: political reflections on a cultural legacy.