The invention of politics in the European avant-garde (1906-1940) / edited by Sascha Bru and Gunther Martens.

Other author Bru, Sascha.
Other author Martens, Gunter, 1934-
Format Book
Publication InfoAmsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2006.
Description290 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Subjects
Avant-garde (Aesthetics)--Europe. --History. --20th century.
Arts--Political aspects. --Europe. --History.

SeriesAvant Garde critical studies ; 19
Avant garde critical studies ; 19. ^A697186
Contents The phantom league : the centennial debate on the avant-garde and politics / Sascha Bru -- "Sometimes I spit for pleasure on my mother's portrait" : on the strategic uses of inflammatory rhetoric in surrealism / Kirsten Strom -- Framing literary speech acts of political modernity : notes on Hermann Broch, Karl Kraus and expressionism / Gunther Martens -- The rhetoric of violence : avant-garde manifestoes and the myth of racial community / Laura Winkiel -- Uncanny polemics and ambivalent reappraisals : the French debate on surrealism on the eve of the Cold War / Steven Engles -- Ecstatic subjects : citizenship and sex in Czech surrealism / Malynne Sternstein -- From a new art to a new life and a new man : avant-garde utopianism in dada / Hubert F. van den Berg -- The futurist political party / Günther Berghaus -- Surrealism and the political : the case of Nadja / Raymond Spiteri -- Cultural hegemony and avant-garde rivalry : the ambivalent reception of futurism in France, England and Russia / Thomas Hunkeler -- A Europeanizing geography : the first Spanish avant-garde's remapping of Castile (1914-1925) / Renée M. Silverman -- Dragging Nordic horses past the sludge of extremes : the beginnings of the Icelandic avant-garde / Benedikt Hjartarson.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2006436035
ISBN9042019093 (hd. bd.)