| The European Avant-Garde: 1900-1940 Contributor(s): Webber, Andrew J. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0745627048 ISBN-13: 9780745627045 Publisher: Polity Press OUR PRICE: $69.11 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: September 2004 Annotation: This book offers an informative and accessible cultural history of the European avant-garde in its early twentieth-century heyday. It provides comparative coverage of cultural experimentation across the major European languages, including English, French, German, Russian, Spanish and Italian. Andrew Webber presents striking examples to illustrate a time of unprecedented experiment and energetic performance in all aspects of culture. Readings of some of the most important and characteristic avant-garde texts, pictures and films are set against some of the key developments of the period: advances in technology and psychology; the rise of radical politics; the cultural ferment of the modern metropolis; and the upheaval in issues of gender and sexuality. The authorrsquo; s mediation between a variety of cultural forms, combining political and psychoanalytical modes of understanding, evokes the richness of the age in a manner that students will find both illuminating and provocative. This volume will be an excellent textbook for courses on the avant-garde in departments of comparative cultural studies, literature and film studies. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Art | History - Modern (late 19th Century To 1945) - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social |
| Dewey: 709.041 |
| LCCN: 2003022059 |
| Series: Polity Cultural History of Literature |
| Physical Information: 0.98" H x 6.2" W x 9.14" (1.14 lbs) 272 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book offers an informative and accessible cultural history of the European avant-garde in its early twentieth-century heyday. It provides comparative coverage of cultural experimentation across the major European languages, including English, French, German, Russian, Spanish and Italian. Andrew Webber presents striking examples to illustrate a time of unprecedented experiment and energetic performance in all aspects of culture. Readings of some of the most important and characteristic avant-garde texts, pictures and films are set against some of the key developments of the period: advances in technology and psychology; the rise of radical politics; the cultural ferment of the modern metropolis; and the upheaval in issues of gender and sexuality. The author's mediation between a variety of cultural forms, combining political and psychoanalytical modes of understanding, evokes the richness of the age in a manner that students will find both illuminating and provocative. This volume will be an excellent textbook for courses on the avant-garde in departments of comparative cultural studies, literature and film studies. |
