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Informationen zum Autor Willard Bohn is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of French and Comparative Literature at Illinois State University. He received his Ph. D. in French from the University of California at Berkeley and has been a visiting Research Fellow at Oxford University! the University of Cambridge!and Durham University among others. In 2005 he was elected Oliver Smithies Lecturer! Balliol College! Oxford University. An active scholar! Professor Bohn has published 158 scholarly articles and seventeen books including The Aesthetics of Visual Poetry! The Rise of Surrealism! and The Avant-Garde Imperative. Zusammenfassung This book focuses on avant-garde literature and art in Europe and America during the first quarter of the twentieth century. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Inventing Cubism Pablo Picasso, Gertrude Stein, and Guillaume Apollinaire Pierre Reverdy and the Ascetic Muse 2. Initiating Futurism F. T. Marinetti Other Futurist Poets 3. The Metaphysical Imagination Giorgio de Chirico’s French Poetry Giorgio de Chirico’s Italian Poetry 4. Dada Gambits 0 Visualizing Women in Creating Dada Poetry 5. Conceiving Surrealism Magnetic Fields Two Surrealist Heroes Three Surrealist Women 6. Mannequins and Faceless Mannequins Birth of the Faceless Mannequin Metaphysical Mannequins Dada Mannequins Surrealist Mannequins Conclusion Bibliography Index
