Rethinking the Vanguard : aesthetic and political positions in the modernist debate, 1917-1962 /: aesthetic and political positions in the modernist debate, 1917-1962. (2009)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: By John W. Maerhofer.
• Other Names: Maerhofer, John W
• Contents: The theoretical margins of the historical avant-garde. Spectrums : Adorno, Bürger, and Suleiman ; Revolution-as-signifier : aesthetics and politics after 1917 ; Toward a Leninist theory of art : vanguardism and the role of the committed artist, 1917-1934 -- Art, propaganda, and the manifesto, 1924-1938. Ideology and the praxis of the manifesto ; The strange diversion : communism in the service of the Surrealist revolution ; Socialist realism and the cult of the avant-garde artist -- Vanguardism : left and right movements, 1930-1948. Engineering souls : Louis Aragon and réalisme socialiste ; Ezra Pound, Futurism, and the culture of Fascism ; Towards a revolutionary Formalism : the vanguardist poetics of Louis Zukofsky -- Third world revolutions and the crisis of European aesthetic and political vanguardism, 1950-1962. Vanguardism and third world revolutionary discourse ; Aimé Césaire, Négritude, and vanguardist crisis ; The localization of the vanguard : Frantz Fanon and the Algerian revolution -- Towards a conclusion : late capitalism and the historical context of the neo-avant-garde.
• Publisher Details: Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Pub
• Publication Date: 2009
• Extent: 1 online resource (x, 215 pages)
• Subjects: 700.904; C 1900; Modernism (Aesthetics); Avant-garde (Aesthetics); Art -- Political aspects; Aesthetics, Modern -- 20th century; Intellectual life -- History -- 20th century; ART -- Performance; ART -- Reference; Aesthetics, Modern; Art -- Political aspects; Avant-garde (Aesthetics); Intellectual life; Modernism (Aesthetics); Avantgarde; Politik; Ästhetik; Theory of art; Revolutionary groups & movements; Electronic books; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781443811354; 1443811351; 9781443812276; 1443812277
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-212) and index.
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