Anarchism and the Avant-Garde

Radical Arts and Politics in Perspective

Buch | Hardcover

294 Seiten

2019
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-41041-1 (ISBN)

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Anarchism and the Avant-Garde: Radical Arts and Politics in Perspective offers a fresh approach to the encounter of the classical anarchisms (1860s−1940s) and the artistic and literary avant-gardes of the same period, probing its dimensions and limits.

Anarchism and the Avant-Garde: Radical Arts and Politics in Perspective contributes to the continuing debate on the encounter of the classical anarchisms (1860s−1940s) and the artistic and literary avant-gardes of the same period, probing its dimensions and limits. Case studies on Dadaism, decadence, fauvism, neo-impressionism, symbolism, and various anarchisms explore the influence anarchism had on the avant-gardes and reflect on avant-garde tendencies within anarchism. This volume also explores the divergence of anarchism and the avant-gardes. It offers a rich examination of politics and arts, and it complements an ongoing discourse with theoretical tools to better assess the aesthetic, social, and political cross-pollination that took place between the avant-gardes and the anarchists in Europe.

Carolin Kosuch, Dr. phil. (2014) University of Leipzig, is Research Associate at the University of Göttingen. She has published extensively on nineteenth-century European history, including Missratene Söhne. Anarchismus und Sprachkritik im Fin de Siècle (Göttingen, 2015).

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Notes on Contributors

Introduction

Carolin Kosuch

Part 1: Frictions: Aesthetics or Politics

1 The Symbolist Movement: Anarchism and the Avant-Garde in Fin de SiècleFrance

Richard Shryock

2 Egoism, Homosexuality, and Joie de vivre: Jacob Epstein’s Tomb of Oscar Wilde

Mark Antliff

3 A Politics of Technique: Fauvism and Anarchist Individualism

Patricia Leighten

4 Anti-Art? Dada and Anarchy

Daniela Padularosa

Part 2: Fractions: Declining – Pioneering − Redeeming

5 Decadent Anarchism, Anarchistic Decadence: Contradictory Cultures, Complementary Politics

David Weir

6 ‘We Are Too Far Ahead to be Understood’: Vanguard Creation in Fin de Siècle Anarchism

Carolin Kosuch

7 ‘Theocratic Anarchism’? Walter Benjamin and Gershom Scholem in Switzerland: Anarchism, Messianism and the Avant-Garde

Gabriele Guerra

Part 3: Focal Points: Art and Education in Local and Transnational Settings

8 Syndicalism and Art in France before 1914: Propaganda and Prefiguration

Constance Bantman

9 Anarchism, Geography and Painting: Élisée Reclus and Social Art

Federico Ferretti

10 Teaching Revolution through Arts? Anarchism, the Avant-garde and Education Critically Revisited

Piotr Laskowski

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Erscheinungsdatum	20.11.2019
Reihe/Serie	Avant-Garde Critical Studies ; 38
Zusatzinfo	45 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	607 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	90-04-41041-4 / 9004410414
ISBN-13	978-90-04-41041-1 / 9789004410411
Zustand	Neuware