Sculptors against the state : anarchism and the Anglo-European avant-garde / Mark Antliff.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Antliff, Mark, 1957- author.

Series:

Refiguring modernism

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Boccioni, Umberto, 1882-1916.

Epstein, Jacob, 1880-1959.

Gaudier-Brzeska, Henri, 1891-1915.

Sculpture, European--20th century.

Sculpture, European.

Gaudier-Brzeska, Henri, 1891-1915--Criticism and interpretation.

Gaudier-Brzeska, Henri.

Epstein, Jacob, 1880-1959--Criticism and interpretation.

Epstein, Jacob.

Boccioni, Umberto, 1882-1916--Criticism and interpretation.

Boccioni, Umberto.

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

Avant-garde (Aesthetics).

Anarchism and art--Europe--History--20th century.

Anarchism and art.

History.

Criticism and interpretation.

Europe.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

History.

Physical Description:

xii, 256 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2021]

Summary:

"Considers the relation of anarchist ideology to avant-garde sculpture through an examination of iconic artists and writers whose work transformed European modernism: Jacob Epstein, Oscar Wilde, Umberto Boccioni, F. T. Marinetti, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, and Ezra Pound"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. "Life's Joy": Censorship, Homosexuality, and Jacob Epstein's Tomb of Oscar Wilde

2. Sculpting an Antidemocratic Insurrection: / Umberto Boccioni's Unique Forms of Continuity in Space

3. Henri Gaudier-Brzeska's La Guerre sociale: Satire, Apaches, and Antimilitarism

4. Into the Vortex: Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, Ezra Pound, and Sculptural Nominalism.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 232-247) and index.

ISBN:

9780271089454

0271089458

OCLC:

1240413357