Embattled avant-gardes : modernism's resistance to commodity culture in Europe / Walter L. Adamson.

Author/creator Adamson, Walter L.
Format Book
Publication InfoBerkeley : University of California Press, ©2007.
Descriptionxii, 435 pages ; 24 cm
Supplemental ContentTable of contents only
Subjects

Contents Early avant-garde modernism -- Intellectuals, commodity culture, and religions of art in the nineteenth century -- F.T. Marinetti -- Guillaume Apollinaire -- Wassily Kandinsky -- Varieties of interwar modernism -- The rise and fall of design modernism: Bauhaus, De Stijl, and purism -- Futurism and its modernist rivals in fascist Italy -- André Breton's surrealism -- The critical modernism of Herbert Read.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 355-425) and index.
LCCN 2007014869
ISBN9780520252707 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0520252705 (cloth : alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks NX 542 .A32 2007 ✔ Available Place Hold