Sculptors against the state : anarchism and the Anglo-European avant-garde / Mark Antliff.
| Author/creator | Antliff, Mark, 1957- author. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2021] |
| Copyright Date | ©2021 |
| Description | xii, 256 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Series | Refiguring modernism Refiguring modernism. ^A595297 |
| Contents | Introduction : anarchism then and now -- "Life's joy" : censorship, homosexuality, and Jacob Epstein's Tomb of Oscar Wilde -- Sculpting an antidemocratic insurrection : Umberto Boccioni's Unique forms of continuity in space -- Henri Gaudier-Brzeska's La guerre sociale : satire, Apaches, and antimilitarism -- Into the vortex : Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, Ezra Pound, and sculptural nominalism -- Conclusion : anarchist aesthetics and ideology; shaping states of mind. |
| Abstract | "Considers the relation of anarchist ideology to avant-garde sculpture through an examination of iconic artists and writers whose work transformed European modernism: Jacob Epstein, Oscar Wilde, Umberto Boccioni, F. T. Marinetti, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, and Ezra Pound"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 232-247) and index. |
| Genre/form | Criticism, interpretation, etc. |
| Genre/form | History. |
| LCCN | 2021017326 |
| ISBN | 9780271089454 (hardback) |
| ISBN | 0271089458 (hardback) |