"Militant Modernism argues for a Modernism of everyday life, immersed in questions of socialism, sexual politics and technology. It features new readings of some familiar names - Bertolt Brecht, Le Corbusier, Vladimir Mayakovsky - and much more on the lesser known, quotidian mod…
"R. Bruce Elder argues that the authors of many of the lively manifestos that announced the appearance of new artistic movements shared a common aspiration: they proposed to reformulate the visual, literary, and performing arts so that these arts might take on attributes of the …
"R. Bruce Elder argues that the authors of many of the lively manifestos that announced the appearance of new artistic movements shared a common aspiration: they proposed to reformulate the visual, literary, and performing arts so that these arts might take on attributes of the …
This book looks at Kierkegaard with a fresh perspective shaped by the history of ideas, framed by the terms romanticism and modernism. 'Modernism' here refers to the kind of intellectual and literary modernism associated with Georg Brandes, and such later nineteenth and early tw…
'Africa In Stereo' examines the role that African American music has played in the pan-Africanist imagination since the end of the 19th century. Throughout, Jaji marshals a wide array of critical, archival, literary, visual, and sonic sources to craft an argument centered on the…
The Routledge companion to experimental literature
"In this latest addition to Oxford's Modernist Literature & Culture series, renowned modernist scholar Michael North poses fundamental questions about the relationship between modernity and comic form in film, animation, the visual arts, and literature. Machine-Age Comedy vividl…
If modernism initially came to Africa through colonial contact, what does Ethiopia2019s inimitable historical condition2014its independence save for five years under Italian occupation2014mean for its own modernist tradition? In Modernist Art in Ethiopia2014the first book-length…
Im New York der 1930er Jahre formierte sich eine Gruppe Intellektueller um die politisch orientierte Literaturzeitschrift Partisan Review. Dieser seit den späten 1960er Jahren mit dem Begriff »New Yorker Intellektuelle« bezeichnete Zirkel spaltete sich in den 1940er und 1950er J…
Ohne Avantgarde gibt es keine Traditionen.Mit und an den Schriften des Künstlers und Denkers Bazon Brock unternimmt es das Buch, eine Theorie zu entwickeln, die die Avantgarde als Schöpferin von Traditionen ausweist. Im Gegensatz zu den bekannten Ansätzen, die in den verschieden…
Ohne Avantgarde gibt es keine Traditionen.Mit und an den Schriften des Künstlers und Denkers Bazon Brock unternimmt es das Buch, eine Theorie zu entwickeln, die die Avantgarde als Schöpferin von Traditionen ausweist. Im Gegensatz zu den bekannten Ansätzen, die in den verschieden…
Nordic Classicism presents the first English-language survey of an important yet short-lived movement in modern architectural history. It was through the Nordic classical movement that Scandinavian architecture first attracted international attention. It was the Nordic Pavilions…