Aesthetic Revolutions and Twentieth-Century Avant-Garde Modernisms - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0822358611 ISBN 13 : 9780822358619

Editeur : Duke University Press, 2015

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

This collection examines key aesthetic avant-garde art movements of the twentieth century and their relationships with revolutionary politics. The contributors distinguish aesthetic avant-gardes --whose artists aim to transform society and the ways of sensing the world through political means--from the artistic avant-gardes, which focus on transforming representation. Following the work of philosophers such as Friedrich Schiller and Jacques RanciEre, the contributors argue that the aesthetic is inherently political and that aesthetic avant-garde art is essential for political revolution. In addition to analyzing Russian constructivsm, surrealism, and Situationist International, the contributors examine Italian futurism's model of integrating art with politics and life, the murals of revolutionary Mexico and Nicaragua, 1960s American art, and the Slovenian art collective NSK's construction of a fictional political state in the 1990s. "Aesthetic Revolutions and Twentieth-Century Avant-Garde Movements" traces the common foundations and goals shared by these disparate arts communities and shows how their art worked towards effecting political and social change. Contributors. John E. Bowlt, Sascha Bru, David Craven, AleS Erjavec, Tyrus Miller, Raymond Spiteri, MiSko Suvakovic

Revue de presse :

"This is a quite remarkable collection that profiles the art/politics relationship as it was concretely negotiated at key moments throughout the twentieth century. No other study enables us to look so closely to see just what the art/politics relation amounted to--or, more exactly, what was the real relationship between artistic practice and revolutionary social transformation." --Terry Smith, author of"Antinomies of Art and Culture: Modernity, Postmodernity, Contemporaneity"

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Duke University Press
• Date d'édition: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0822358611
• ISBN 13: 9780822358619
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 344