The European avant-gardes, 1905-1935 : a portable guide / Sascha Bru.

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Bru, Sascha [Author]

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computer

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online resource

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9780748695928

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N64890 .E976 2018

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Summary: 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.

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Includes bibliographies and index.

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.

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

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