European Avant-Garde: 1900-1940 - Couverture souple

Webber, Andrew J.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0745627056 ISBN 13 : 9780745627052

Editeur : Polity Press, 2004

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Andrew J. Webber is University Senior Lecturer in German and Fellow of Churchill College at the University of Cambridge.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Polity Press
• Date d'édition: 2004
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0745627056
• ISBN 13: 9780745627052
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 272
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible