The European Avant-garde: 1900-1940ISBN: 978-0-7456-2705-2
Paperback
272 pages
September 2004, Polity
Other Available Formats: Hardcover
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Andrew Webber presents striking examples to illustrate a time of
unprecedented experiment and energetic performance in all aspects
of culture. Readings of some of the most important and
characteristic avant-garde texts, pictures and films are set
against some of the key developments of the period: advances in
technology and psychology; the rise of radical politics; the
cultural ferment of the modern metropolis; and the upheaval in
issues of gender and sexuality. The author’s mediation
between a variety of cultural forms, combining political and
psychoanalytical modes of understanding, evokes the richness of the
age in a manner that students will find both illuminating and
provocative.
This volume will be an excellent textbook for courses on the avant-garde in departments of comparative cultural studies, literature and film studies.