Aesthetic revolutions and twentieth-century avant-garde movements / Ales̆ Erjavec, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Erjavec, Aleš.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Avant-garde (Aesthetics).

Aesthetics--Political aspects.

Aesthetics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (339 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham ; London : Duke University Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

<div>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.</div>

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780822358725

0822358727

OCLC:

904851665