Anarchism and the Avant-Garde : a Radical Arts and Politics in Perspective / Edited by Carolin Kosuch.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kosuch, Carolin, editor.

Series:

Avant-Garde Critical Studies ; 38.

Avant-Garde Critical Studies ; 38

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Anarchism.

Anarchists.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Leiden; Boston : Brill | Rodopi, 2020.

Summary:

Anarchism and the Avant-Garde: Radical Arts and Politics in Perspective contributes to the continuing debate on the encounter of the classical anarchisms (1860s−1940s) and the artistic and literary avant-gardes of the same period, probing its dimensions and limits. Case studies on Dadaism, decadence, fauvism, neo-impressionism, symbolism, and various anarchisms explore the influence anarchism had on the avant-gardes and reflect on avant-garde tendencies within anarchism. This volume also explores the divergence of anarchism and the avant-gardes. It offers a rich examination of politics and arts, and it complements an ongoing discourse with theoretical tools to better assess the aesthetic, social, and political cross-pollination that took place between the avant-gardes and the anarchists in Europe.

Contents:

Front Matter

Copyright Page

Illustrations

Notes on Contributors

Introduction / Carolin Kosuch

Frictions: Aesthetics or Politics

The Symbolist Movement: Anarchism and the Avant-Garde in Fin de Siècle France / Richard Shryock

Egoism, Homosexuality, and Joie de vivre: Jacob Epstein’s Tomb of Oscar Wilde / Mark Antliff

A Politics of Technique: Fauvism and Anarchist Individualism / Patricia Leighten

Anti-Art? Dada and Anarchy / Daniela Padularosa

Fractions: Declining – Pioneering – Redeeming

Decadent Anarchism, Anarchistic Decadence: Contradictory Cultures, Complementary Politics / David Weir

‘We Are Too Far Ahead to be Understood’: Vanguard Creation in Fin de Siècle Anarchism / Carolin Kosuch

‘Theocratic Anarchism’? Walter Benjamin and Gershom Scholem in Switzerland: Anarchism, Messianism and the Avant-Garde / Gabriele Guerra

Focal Points: Art and Education in Local and Transnational Settings

Syndicalism and Art in France before 1914: Propaganda and Prefiguration / Constance Bantman

Anarchism, Geography and Painting: Élisée Reclus and Social Art / Federico Ferretti

Teaching Revolution through Art? Anarchism, the Avant-garde and Education Critically Revisited / Piotr Laskowski

Back Matter

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Current Copyright Fee: GBP20.00 0.

ISBN:

90-04-41042-2

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004410428 DOI