Radical art and the formation of the avant-garde / David Cottington.

Author/creator Cottington, David
Format Electronic
Publication InfoNew Haven ; London : Yale University Press, 2022
Description384 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
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Summary Over the past fifty years, the term "avant-garde" has come to shape discussions of European culture and modernity, ubiquitously taken for granted but rarely defined. This ground-breaking book develops an original and searching methodology that fundamentally reconfigures the social, cultural, and visual context of the emergence of the artistic avant-garde in Paris and London before 1915, bringing the material history of its formation into clearer and more detailed focus than ever before.0 Drawing on a wealth of disciplinary evidence, from socio-economics to histories of sexuality, bohemia, consumerism, politics, and popular culture, David Cottington explores the different models of cultural collectivity in, and presumed hierarchies between, these two focal cities, while identifying points of ideological influence and difference between them. He reveals the avant-garde to be at once complicit with, resistant to, and a product of the modernizing forces of professionalization, challenging the conventional wisdom on this moment of cultural formation and offering the means to reset the terms of avant-garde studies.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 363-370) and index.
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Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2021946780
ISBN0300166737
ISBN9780300166736

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