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Surveying the Avant-Garde - Questions on Modernism, Art, and the Americas in Transatlantic Magazines (Hardcover)
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Surveying the Avant-Garde - Questions on Modernism, Art, and the Americas in Transatlantic Magazines (Hardcover)
Series: Refiguring Modernism
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Surveying the Avant-Garde examines the art and literature of the
Americas in the early twentieth century through the lens of the
questionnaire, a genre as central as the manifesto to the history
of the avant-garde. Questions such as “How do you imagine Latin
America?” and “What should American art be?” issued by
avant-garde magazines like Imán, a Latin American periodical based
in Paris, and Cuba’s Revista de Avance demonstrate how editors,
writers, and readers all grappled with the concept of
“America,” particularly in relationship to Europe, and how the
questionnaire became a structuring device for reflecting on their
national and aesthetic identities in print. Through an analysis of
these questionnaires and their responses, Lori Cole reveals how
ideas like “American art,” as well as “modernism” and
“avant-garde,” were debated at the very moment of their
development and consolidation. Unlike a manifesto, whose
signatories align with a single polemical text, the questionnaire
produces a patchwork of responses, providing a composite and
sometimes fractured portrait of a community. Such responses yield a
self-reflexive history of the era as told by its protagonists,
which include figures such as Gertrude Stein, Alfred Stieglitz,
Jean Toomer, F. T. Marinetti, Diego Rivera, and Jorge Luis Borges.
The book traces a genealogy of the genre from the Renaissance
paragone, or “comparison of the arts,” through the rise of
enquêtes in the late nineteenth century, up to the contemporary
questionnaire, which proliferates in art magazines today. By
analyzing a selection of surveys issued across the Atlantic, Cole
indicates how they helped shape artists’ and writers’
understanding of themselves and their place in the world. Based on
extensive archival research, this book reorients our understanding
of modernism as both hemispheric and transatlantic by narrating how
the artists and writers of the period engaged in aesthetic debates
that informed and propelled print communities in Europe, the United
States, and Latin America. Scholars of modernism and the
avant-garde will welcome Cole’s original and compellingly crafted
work.
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