Aesthetic Revolutions and Twentieth-Century Avant-Garde Movements
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- ISBN 9780822358619
- Weight: 612g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 09 Jun 2015
- Publisher: Duke University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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This collection examines key aesthetic avant-garde art movements of the twentieth century and their relationships with revolutionary politics. The contributors distinguish aesthetic avant-gardes -whose artists aim to transform society and the ways of sensing the world through political means-from the artistic avant-gardes, which focus on transforming representation. Following the work of philosophers such as Friedrich Schiller and Jacques RanciÈre, the contributors argue that the aesthetic is inherently political and that aesthetic avant-garde art is essential for political revolution. In addition to analyzing Russian constructivsm, surrealism, and Situationist International, the contributors examine Italian futurism's model of integrating art with politics and life, the murals of revolutionary Mexico and Nicaragua, 1960s American art, and the Slovenian art collective NSK's construction of a fictional political state in the 1990s. Aesthetic Revolutions and Twentieth-Century Avant-Garde Movements traces the common foundations and goals shared by these disparate arts communities and shows how their art worked towards effecting political and social change.
Contributors. John E. Bowlt, Sascha Bru, David Craven, AleŠ Erjavec, Tyrus Miller, Raymond Spiteri, MiŠko Šuvakovic
Contributors. John E. Bowlt, Sascha Bru, David Craven, AleŠ Erjavec, Tyrus Miller, Raymond Spiteri, MiŠko Šuvakovic
AleŠ Erjavec is Research Professor in the Institute of Philosophy of the Scientific Research Center of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts. He is the author of Postmodernism, Postsocialism and Beyond, and the editor of Postmodernism and the Postsocialist Condition: Politicized Art under Late Socialism.
