Aesthetic revolutions and twentieth-century avant-garde movements

Başlık:

ISBN:

9780822375661

9780822358619

9780822358725

Yayın Bilgileri:

Durham ; London : Duke University Press, 2015.

Fiziksel Tanımlama:

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.

Local Note:

JSTOR

Corporate Subject:

Avant Garde Musikgruppe

Subject Term:

Avant-garde (Aesthetics) -- History -- 20th century.

Aesthetics -- Political aspects.

ART -- Performance.

ART -- Reference.

ART -- Criticism & Theory.

Aesthetics -- Political aspects

Avant-garde (Aesthetics)