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Modernism and Its Merchandise - The Spanish Avant-Garde and Material Culture, 1920-1930 (Paperback)
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Modernism and Its Merchandise - The Spanish Avant-Garde and Material Culture, 1920-1930 (Paperback)
Series: Refiguring Modernism
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The writers and artists of the Spanish avant-garde, enthralled with
the streamlined, mass-produced commodities of the Machine Age,
incorporated these objects into their literary and visual works. In
doing so, they launched a broad inquiry into the relations between
mind and matter, people and things, words and world. In Modernism
and Its Merchandise, Juli Highfill traces that dissonant but
productive line of inquiry by focusing on the objects of obsession
for the Spanish vanguardists—starting with the fruit bowls of
cubist still life; continuing with the merchandise, machines, and
fashions of the 1920s; and concluding with objects of ruin and
decay. The trajectory moves from the natural to the technological
domains, from the newfangled to the outmoded. Throughout this
study, objects appear ever in motion, engaging and altering their
human subjects—whether as objects of exchange, as prosthetic
organs, or as triggers for powerful affective responses, such as
appetite, taste, and disgust. The insights that arise from these
encounters with material things anticipate the knowledge emerging
today in the fields of material culture, technology studies, and
network theory.
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