The Invention of Politics in the European Avant-Garde (1906-1940)

Erscheinungsjahr 2006
ISBN: 978-90-420-1909-6
Verlag: Brill | Rodopi

Buch, Englisch, Band 19, 292 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 708 g

Reihe: Avant-Garde Critical Studies

In 1906, for the first time in his life, F.T. Marinetti connected the term ‘avant-garde’ with the idea of the future, thus paving the way for what is now commonly called the ‘modernist’ or ‘historical avant-garde’. Since 1906 the ties between the early twentieth-century European aesthetic vanguard and politics have been a matter of debate. With a century gone by, The Invention of Politics in the European Avant-Garde takes stock of this debate. Opening with a critical introduction to the vast research archive on the subject, this book proposes to view the avant-garde as a political force in its own right that may have produced solutions to problems irresolvable within its democratic political constellation. In a series of essays that combine close readings of texts and plastic works with a thorough knowledge of their political context, the book looks at avant-garde works as media producing political thought and experience. Covering the canonised avant-garde movements of Futurism, Expressionism, Dadaism and Surrealism, but also focussing on the avant-garde in Europe’s geographical outskirts, this book will appeal to all those interested in the modernist avant-garde.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Bru, Sascha

Martens, Gunther

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Politische Soziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: 20./21. Jahrhundert
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Politische Soziologie und Psychologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements
Introduction
Sascha BRU: The Phantom League. The Centennial Debate on the Avant-Garde and Politics
The Politics of Community
Kirsten STROM: “Sometimes I Spit for Pleasure on My Mother's Portrait”. On the Strategic Uses of Inflammatory Rhetoric in Surrealism
Gunther MARTENS: Framing Literary Speech Acts of Political Modernity. Notes on Hermann Broch, Karl Kraus and Expressionism
Laura WINKIEL: The Rhetoric of Violence. Avant-Garde Manifestoes and the Myth of Racial Community
Steven ENGELS: Uncanny Polemics and Ambivalent Reappraisals. The French Debate on Surrealism on the Eve of the Cold War
Citizens/Subjects
Malynne STERNSTEIN: Ecstatic Subjects. Citizenship and Sex in Czech Surrealism
Hubert F. van den BERG: From a New Art to a New Life and a New Man. Avant-Garde Utopianism in dada
Parties/Groups
Günter BERGHAUS: The Futurist Political Party
Raymond SPITERI: Surrealism and the Political. The Case of Nadja
Nations/States
Thomas HUNKELER: Cultural Hegemony and Avant-Garde Rivalry. The Ambivalent Reception of Futurism in France, England and Russia
Renée M. SILVERMAN: A Europeanizing Geography. The First Spanish Avant-Garde’s Remapping of Castile (1914-1925)
Benedikt HJARTARSON: Dragging Nordic Horses past the Sludge of Extremes. The Beginnings of the Icelandic Avant-Garde
Illustrations
Abstracts
Index