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Modernism at the Barricades - Aesthetics, Politics, Utopia (Paperback)
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Modernism at the Barricades - Aesthetics, Politics, Utopia (Paperback)
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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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