This sweeping work, at once a panoramic overview and an ambitious
critical reinterpretation of European modernism, provides a bold
new perspective on a movement that defined the cultural landscape
of the early twentieth century. Walter L. Adamson embarks on a
lucid, wide-ranging exploration of the avant-garde practices
through which the modernist generations after 1900 resisted the
rise of commodity culture as a threat to authentic cultural
expression. Taking biographical approaches to numerous avant-garde
leaders, Adamson charts the rise and fall of modernist aspirations
in movements and individuals as diverse as Ruskin, Marinetti,
Kandinsky, Bauhaus, Purism, and the art critic Herbert Read. In
conclusion, Adamson rises to the defense of the modernists,
suggesting that their ideas are relevant to current efforts to
think through what it might mean to create a vibrant, aesthetically
satisfying form of cultural democracy.
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