Embattled Avant Gardes Modernism s Resistance to Commodity Culture in Europe 1st Edition by Walter Adamson ISBN 0520261532 978-0520261532

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ISBN 10:  0520261532 

ISBN 13: 978-0520261532

Author: Walter L. Adamson

This sweeping work, at once a panoramic overview and an ambitious critical reinterpretation of European modernism, provides a bold new perspective on a movement that defined the cultural landscape of the early twentieth century. Walter L. Adamson embarks on a lucid, wide-ranging exploration of the avant-garde practices through which the modernist generations after 1900 resisted the rise of commodity culture as a threat to authentic cultural expression. Taking biographical approaches to numerous avant-garde leaders, Adamson charts the rise and fall of modernist aspirations in movements and individuals as diverse as Ruskin, Marinetti, Kandinsky, Bauhaus, Purism, and the art critic Herbert Read. In conclusion, Adamson rises to the defense of the modernists, suggesting that their ideas are relevant to current efforts to think through what it might mean to create a vibrant, aesthetically satisfying form of cultural democracy.

Table of contents: 

PART ONE
EARLY AVANT-GARDE MODERNISM

1 Intellectuals, Commodity Culture, and Religions of Art in the Nineteenth Century

2 F. T. Marinetti

3 Guillaume Apollinaire

4 Wassily Kandinsky

PART TWO
VARIETIES OF INTERWAR MODERNISM

5 The Rise and Fall of Design Modernism: Bauhaus, De Stijl, and Purism

6 Futurism and Its Modernist Rivals in Fascist Italy

7 André Breton’s Surrealism

8 The Critical Modernism of Herbert Read

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