Contagion, hygiene, and the European avant-garde. (2023)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by David Hopkins, Disa Persson.
• Editors: Hopkins, David, 1955-; Persson, Disa
• Contents: Table of contents Introduction 1. Contexts: Modernity, Hygiene, and Contagion Part I Hygiene and Materialities of the Modern Metropolis 2. Degas and the matter of contagion: dirt, skin, touch and the cosmetic arts 3. ‘I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt’: George Orwell, Grubbiness, and Hygiene Part II Illness, Infection, and Contamination as Avant-Gardism 4. Exposing ‘The Venereal Peril’: Fournier’s Syphilography, Munch’s Heredo-syphilitic, La Syphilis Arabe and Picasso’s Prostitutes 5. Marcel Duchamp’s Paris Air: The ‘Spanish Flu’, Black Humour and Dada Contagion 6. Spittle, Dust and Flies: Documents and Tuberculosis in the Visual Culture of Interwar France Part III Contagion as Metaphor: Social Emancipation and Avant-Garde Ecology 7. Wage Labour as Contagion: Surrealist Sewing Machines and Liberatory Eroticism 8. Avant-Garde Hygiene and Contagion: Artaud’s Ecology in the Chemical Century
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2023
• Extent: 1 online resource (248 pages), illustrations (black and white, and colour)
• Subjects: 700.4561; Health in art; Diseases in art; Arts, European -- 19th century -- Themes, motives; Arts, European -- 20th century -- Themes, motives; Arts and society -- Europe -- History -- 19th century; Arts and society -- Europe -- History -- 20th century
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000905083; 9781000905076
• Related ISBNs: 9781032284996
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