Embattled avant-gardes : modernism's resistance to commodity culture in Europe / Walter L. Adamson.
Embattled avant-gardes : modernism's resistance to commodity culture in Europe / Walter L. Adamson.
Embattled avant-gardes : modernism's resistance to commodity culture in Europe / Walter L. Adamson.
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Berkeley : University of California Press, c2007.
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N709.04/136
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English
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xii, 435 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents
Pt. 1. Early avant-garde modernism -- 1. Intellectuals, commodity culture, and religions of art in the nineteenth century -- 2. F. T. Marinetti -- 3. Guillaume Apollinaire -- 4. Wassily Kandinsky -- Pt. 2. Varieties of interwar modernism -- 5. The rise and fall of design modernism : Bauhaus, De Stij...
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Berkeley : University of California Press, c2007.
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California
Date Published
c2007.
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"This work, at once an overview and critical reinterpretation of European modernism, provides a new perspective on a movement that defined the cultural landscape of the early twentieth century. Taking biographical approaches to numerous avant-garde leaders, Adamson charts the rise and fall of modernist aspirations in individuals and movements as di...
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Embattled avant-gardes : modernism's resistance to commodity culture in Europe / Walter L. Adamson.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 355-425) and index.
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N709.04/136
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74VKzbMQWgmb
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0520252705 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780520252707 (cloth : alk. paper)
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709.04
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991023563629702626
