Poetry of the Revolution : Marx, Manifestos, and the Avant-Gardes / Martin Puchner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Puchner, Martin, author.

Series:

Translation/Transnation

Translation/Transnation ; 13

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Arts--Political aspects.

Arts, Modern--20th century.

Avant-garde (Aesthetics)--History--19th century.

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

Local Subjects:

Arts--Political aspects.

Arts, Modern--20th century.

Avant-garde (Aesthetics)--History--19th century.

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

Physical Description:

1 online resource (332 p.)

Edition:

Course Book

Place of Publication:

Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2005]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Poetry of the Revolution tells the story of political and artistic upheavals through the manifestos of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Ranging from the Communist Manifesto to the manifestos of the 1960s and beyond, it highlights the varied alliances and rivalries between socialism and repeated waves of avant-garde art. Martin Puchner argues that the manifesto--what Marx called the "poetry" of the revolution--was the genre through which modern culture articulated its revolutionary ambitions and desires. When it intruded into the sphere of art, the manifesto created an art in its own image: shrill and aggressive, political and polemical. The result was "manifesto art"--combinations of manifesto and art that fundamentally transformed the artistic landscape of the twentieth century. Central to modern politics and art, the manifesto also measures the geography of modernity. The translations, editions, and adaptations of such texts as the Communist Manifesto and the Futurist Manifesto registered and advanced the spread of revolutionary modernity and of avant-garde movements across Europe and to the Americas. The rapid diffusion of these manifestos was made "possible by networks--such as the successive socialist internationals and international avant-garde movements--that connected Santiago and Zurich, Moscow and New York, London and Mexico City. Poetry of the Revolution thus provides the point of departure for a truly global analysis of modernism and modernity.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

ILLUSTRATIONS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

INTRODUCTION. Manifestos-Poetry of the Revolution

PART ONE. Marx and the Manifesto

1. The Formation of a Genre

2. Marxian Speech Acts

3. The History of the Communist Manifesto

4. The Geography of the Communist Manifesto

PART TWO. The Futurism Effect

5. Marinetti and the Avant-Garde Manifesto

6. Russian Futurism and the Soviet State

7. The Rear Guard of British Modernism

PART THREE. The Avant-Garde at Large

8. Dada and the Internationalism of the Avant-Garde

9. Huidobro's Creation of a Latin American Vanguard

PART FOUR. Manifestos as Means and End

10. Surrealism, Latent and Manifest

11. Artaud's Manifesto Theater

PART FIVE. A New Poetry for a New Revolution

12. The Manifesto in the Sixties

13. Debord's Society of the Counterspectacle

14. The Avant-Garde Is Dead: Long Live the Avant-Garde!

EPILOGUE. Poetry for the Future

NOTES

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX

Notes:

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ISBN:

9781400844128

1400844126

OCLC:

863671634