Adamson, Walter L.

Embattled avant-gardes : modernism's resistance to commodity culture in Europe / Walter L. Adamson. - Berkeley : University of California Press, c2007. - xii, 435 p. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Early avant-garde modernism -- Intellectuals, commodity culture, and religions of art in the nineteenth century -- F.T. Marinetti -- Guillaume Apollinaire -- Wassily Kandinsky -- Varieties of interwar modernism -- The rise and fall of design modernism: Bauhaus, De Stijl, and purism -- Futurism and its modernist rivals in fascist Italy -- André Breton's surrealism -- The critical modernism of Herbert Read.

9780520252707 (cloth : alk. paper) 0520252705 (cloth : alk. paper)

2007014869

GBA753527 bnb

013789432 Uk


Arts, European--20th century.
Avant-garde (Aesthetics)--History--Europe--20th century.
Modernism (Aesthetics)--History--Europe--20th century.

NX542 / .A32 2007

709.04

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