Aesthetic revolutions and twentieth-century avant-garde movements
Title:
Aesthetic revolutions and twentieth-century avant-garde movements
ISBN:
9780822375661
9780822358619
9780822358725
Publication Information New:
Durham ; London : Duke University Press, 2015.
©2015
Physical Description:
1 online resource (xvi, 322 pages) : illustrations
Contents:
Politics as the art of the impossible: the heteronomy of Italian futurist art-action / Sascha Bru -- 5x5 = 25? The science of constructivism / John E. Bowlt -- Convulsive beauty: surrealism as aesthetic revolution / Raymond Spiteri -- Aesthetic avant-gardes and revolutionary movements from modern Latin America / David Craven -- All along the watchtower: aesthetic revolution in the United States during the 1960s / Tyrus Miller -- From unitary urbanism to the society of the spectacle: the situationist aesthetic revolution / Raymond Spiteri -- NSK: critical phenomenology of the state / Mis̆ko S̆uvaković -- Avant-gardes, revolutions, and aesthetics.
Abstract:
This collection categorizes aesthetic avant-garde art as art that seeks to politically transform society and argues that such art is essential for political revolution. It provides seven in-depth analyses of twentieth-century aesthetic avant-garde art movements and examines them in relation to revolutionary politics.
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Language:
English