Sculptors against the state : anarchism and the Anglo-European avant-garde / Mark Antliff.

Author/creator Antliff, Mark, 1957- author.
Format Book
PublicationUniversity Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2021]
Copyright Date©2021
Descriptionxii, 256 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.
Subjects

SeriesRefiguring 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 noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 232-247) and index.
Genre/formCriticism, interpretation, etc.
Genre/formHistory.
LCCN 2021017326
ISBN9780271089454 (hardback)
ISBN0271089458 (hardback)