What would it mean to be avant-garde today? Arguing against the
notion that the avant-garde is dead or confined to historically
"failed" movements, this book offers a more dynamic and inclusive
theory of avant-gardes that accounts for how they work in our
present. Innovative in approach, Provisional Avant-Gardes focuses
on the medium of the little magazine-from early Dada experiments to
feminist, queer, and digital publishing networks-to understand
avant-gardes as provisional and heterogeneous communities. Paying
particular attention to neglected women writers, artists, and
editors alongside more canonical figures, it shows how the study of
little magazines can change our views of literary and art history
while shedding new light on individual careers. By focusing on the
avant-garde's publishing history and group dynamics, Sophie Seita
also demonstrates a new methodology for writing about avant-garde
practice across time, one that is applicable to other artistic and
non-artistic communities and that speaks to contemporary
practitioners as much as scholars. In the process, she addresses
fundamental questions about the intersections of aesthetic form and
politics and about what we consider to be literature and art.
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