Aesthetic revolutions and twentieth-century avant-garde movements / Ales̆ Erjavec, editor.

This collection categorizes aesthetic avant-garde art as art that seeks to politically transform society and argues that such art is essential for political revolution. It provides seven in-depth analyses of twentieth-century aesthetic avant-garde art movements and examines them in relation to revol...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Duke)
Other Authors: Erjavec, Aleš (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Durham ; London : Duke University Press, 2015.
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Table of Contents:
  • Politics as the art of the impossible: the heteronomy of Italian futurist art-action / Sascha Bru
  • 5x5 = 25? The science of constructivism / John E. Bowlt
  • Convulsive beauty: surrealism as aesthetic revolution / Raymond Spiteri
  • Aesthetic avant-gardes and revolutionary movements from modern Latin America / David Craven
  • All along the watchtower: aesthetic revolution in the United States during the 1960s / Tyrus Miller
  • From unitary urbanism to the society of the spectacle: the situationist aesthetic revolution / Raymond Spiteri
  • NSK: critical phenomenology of the state / Mis̆ko S̆uvaković
  • Avant-gardes, revolutions, and aesthetics.