TY - BOOK AU - Bru,Sascha TI - The European avant-gardes, 1905-1935: a portable guide SN - 9780748695928 AV - N64890 .E976 2018 PY - 2018/// CY - Edinburgh PB - Edinburgh University Press KW - Art, European KW - 20th century KW - Avant-garde (Aesthetics) KW - Europe KW - History KW - Electronic Books N1 - 2; Intro; Illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Packing the Suitcase; Part I Strategies and Tactics; 1 A New Art, One and Undivided; Box 1: Expressionisms; Chapter 2 A Total Art, Pure and R; Box 2: Cubisms; Chapter 3 Anti-Art, Non-Art, Art!; Box 3: Futurisms; Part II Spaces and Places; Chapter 4 Cafés, Cities and Centres; Box 4: Vorticism; Chapter 5 New Men in Old Europe; Box 5: Dadaisms; Chapter 6 A Global Avant-Garde; Box 6: Ultraism and Other Isms; Part III Times and Temporalities; Chapter 7 The Past Appropriated; Box 7: Constructivisms; Chapter 8 The Plural Present; Box 8: SurrealismsChapter 9 The Futures of Theory; Box 9: New Objectivities; Conclusion: En Route; Notes; Index; 2; b N2 - The works of the classic European avant-gardes (cubism, futurism, expressionism, Dadaism, constructivism and many other -isms) today still strike many students of modernism as strange or incomprehensible. Is this art? Do we have to take a sound poem seriously? How, at all. are we to read and interpret avant-garde works? And what on earth is the fourth dimension in physics that fascinated so many avant-gardists? This engaging introduction is designed to answer all these questions and more UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=1857000&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 ER -