Rethinking the Vanguard : aesthetic and political positions in the modernist debate, 1917-1962 /

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Author / Creator:	Maerhofer, John W.
Imprint:	Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2009.
Description:	1 online resource (x, 215 pages)
Language:	English
Subject:	Modernism (Aesthetics) Avant-garde (Aesthetics) Art -- Political aspects. Aesthetics, Modern -- 20th century. Intellectual life -- History -- 20th century. Aesthetics, Modern. Art -- Political aspects. Avant-garde (Aesthetics) Intellectual life. Modernism (Aesthetics) Electronic books. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11283821

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ISBN:	9781443811354 1443811351 9781443812276 1443812277 1282413759 9781282413757 9786612413759 6612413751
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-212) and index. English.
Summary:	How has political revolution figured into the development of avant-garde cultural production? Is the vanguard an antiquated concept or does its influence still resonate in the 21st century? Focusing closely on the convergence of aesthetics and politics that materialized in the early part of the twentieth century, this study offers a re-interpretation of the historical avant-garde from 1917 to 1962, a turbulent period in intellectual history which marked the apex, crisis, and decline of vangua ...
Other form:	Print version: Maerhofer, John W. Rethinking the Vanguard. Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2009 9781443811354
Standard no.:	9786612413759

Table of Contents:

The theoretical margins of the historical avant-garde. Spectrums : Adorno, Bürger, and Suleiman ; Revolution-as-signifier : aesthetics and politics after 1917 ; Toward a Leninist theory of art : vanguardism and the role of the committed artist, 1917-1934
Art, propaganda, and the manifesto, 1924-1938. Ideology and the praxis of the manifesto ; The strange diversion : communism in the service of the Surrealist revolution ; Socialist realism and the cult of the avant-garde artist
Vanguardism : left and right movements, 1930-1948. Engineering souls : Louis Aragon and réalisme socialiste ; Ezra Pound, Futurism, and the culture of Fascism ; Towards a revolutionary Formalism : the vanguardist poetics of Louis Zukofsky
Third world revolutions and the crisis of European aesthetic and political vanguardism, 1950-1962. Vanguardism and third world revolutionary discourse ; Aimé Césaire, Négritude, and vanguardist crisis ; The localization of the vanguard : Frantz Fanon and the Algerian revolution
Towards a conclusion : late capitalism and the historical context of the neo-avant-garde.

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