Against the Avant-Garde - Pier Paolo Pasolini, Contemporary Art, and Neocapitalism

"This book casts the poet and filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini in a fresh light: his life and work in relation to the visual and performance arts of his time in both Europe and the US. Lavishly illustrated with both documentary and fine art images, it shows how essentially conservative Pasolini was politically and aesthetically despite his reputation as an avant-garde writer and filmmaker. But it also shows how truly advanced Pasolini was when it comes to interdisciplinary art, making him enormously relevant today"--

About the author

Ara H. Merjian is professor of Italian Studies at New York University, where he is an affiliate of the Institute of Fine Arts and the Department of Art History. He is a member of the College of Professors in the Department of History, University of Milan, and the author of Giorgio de Chirico and the Metaphysical City: Nietzsche, Modernism, Paris and Blueprints and Ruins: Giorgio de Chicrico and the Architectural Imagination from the Avant-Gardes to Postmodernism, both from Yale University Press.

Product details

• Authors: Ara H Merjian, Ara Merjian, Ara H Merjian, Ara H. Merjian
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2020
• EAN: 9780226655277
• ISBN: 978-0-226-65527-7
• No. of pages: 304
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; Non-fiction book > Music, film, theatre; Travel > Travel guides; LITERARY CRITICISM / General, ART / History / General, History of art / art & design styles, History of Art, Literature: history & criticism, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / History & Criticism, Literature: history and criticism, Film Theory & Criticism, Film history, theory or criticism