The Avant-Garde and the Margin - New Territories of Modernism (Hardcover, Unabridged edition)

The collection of essays The Avant-garde and the Margin: New Territories of the Modernist Avant-garde refigures the critical and historical picture of the modernist avant-garde by introducing a variety of less-commonly discussed geo-artistic sites and dynamics. The contributors explore the multifaceted relations established between the avant-garde "centers" (France, Germany, England, and others) and their counterparts in the cultural "periphery" (Greece, India, Japan, Poland, Quebec, Romania, and the former Yugoslavia), as well as the unique artistic and literary dialogues which these encounters engendered. The primary concern of the anthology is the set of relations established between the center and the margin, the redefinition of which was pivotal for the formulation of the modernist avant-garde aesthetic project itself.While enriching the kaleidoscopic picture of modernism, the essays in this collection also offer new methodological approaches to this polychrome cultural image. In this way, the collection avoids the pitfalls of both the traditional diffusionist/Eurocentric model of the world and the more recent over-relativization of the positions of the margin and the center. In their stead, the anthology proposes a hermeneutics of encounter that is simultaneously "spatial" and "historical," aware of its limits but convinced of its own necessity.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	October 2006
First published:	September 2006
Editors:	Sanja Bahun-Radunovic • Marinos Pourgouris
Dimensions:	212 x 148mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover - With dust jacket
Pages:	203
Edition:	Unabridged edition
ISBN-13:	978-1-84718-030-8
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > From 1900 > General
LSN:	1-84718-030-2
Barcode:	9781847180308

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