Sculptors Against the State - Anarchism and the Anglo-European Avant-Garde

Considers the relation of anarchist ideology to avant-garde sculpture through an examination of iconic artists and writers whose work transformed European modernism: Jacob Epstein, Oscar Wilde, Umberto Boccioni, F. T. Marinetti, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, and Ezra Pound.

About the author

Mark Antliff is Mary Grace Wilson Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Duke University. He is the author of many books, including Inventing Bergson: Cultural Politics and the Parisian Avant-Garde and Avant-Garde Fascism: The Mobilization of Myth, Art, and Culture in France, 1909–1939.

Summary

Considers the relation of anarchist ideology to avant-garde sculpture through an examination of iconic artists and writers whose work transformed European modernism: Jacob Epstein, Oscar Wilde, Umberto Boccioni, F. T. Marinetti, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, and Ezra Pound.

Product details

• Authors: Mark Antliff, Mark (Duke University) Antliff
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.10.2022
• EAN: 9780271092638
• ISBN: 978-0-271-09263-8
• Dimensions: 203 mm x 241 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 839 g
• Illustrations: Raster,schwarz-weiss, Raster, farbig
• Series: Refiguring Modernism
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; ART / European, ART / History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945), ART / Sculpture & Installation, ART / Art & Politics, History of art / art & design styles, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Anarchism, History of Art, Later 19th century c 1850 to c 1899, Non-graphic art forms, Art & Design Styles: Pre-Raphaelite Art, Anarchism