Stephen Eric Bronner revisits the modernist project's
groundbreaking innovations, itsexperimental imagination, and its
utopian politics. Reading the artistic and intellectual
achievements of the movement's leading figures against larger
social, political, and cultural trends, he follows the rise of a
flawed yet salient effort at liberation and its confrontation with
modernity.
"Modernism at the Barricades" features chapters on
expressionism, futurism, surrealism, and revolutionary art and
includes fresh perspectives on the work of Arnold Schoenberg,
Wassily Kandinsky, and Emil Nolde, among others. The volume
illuminates an international avant garde intent on resisting
bureaucracy, standardization, scientific rationality, and the
increasing commodification of mass culture. Modernists sought new
ways of feeling, new forms of expression, and new possibilities of
experience while seeking to refashion society. Liberation was their
aim, along with the invigoration of daily life -- yet their process
entangled political resistance with the cultural.
Exploring both the political responsibility of the artist and
the manipulation of authorial intention, Bronner reconfigures the
modernist movement for contemporary progressive purposes and offers
insight into the problems still complicating cultural politics. He
ultimately reasserts the political dimension of developments often
understood in purely aesthetic terms and confronts the
self-indulgence and political irresponsibility of certain so-called
modernists today. The result is a long overdue reinterpretation and
rehabilitation of the modernist legacy for a new age.
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