Modernism At the Barricades - Aesthetics, Politics, Utopia

Informationen zum Autor Stephen Eric Bronner is Distinguished Professor (PII) of Political Science at Rutgers University. His books include Socialism Unbound: Principles! Practices! and Prospects; Of Critical Theory and Its Theorists; Camus: Portrait of a Moralist; and Reclaiming the Enlightenment: Toward a Politics of Radical Engagement. Klappentext Stephen Eric Bronner reads the artistic and intellectual achievements of the modernist project's leading figures against larger social! political! and cultural trends and follows the rise of a flawed yet salient effort at liberation and its clash with modernity. Exploring both the political responsibility of the artist and the manipulation of authorial intention! Bronner reconfigures the modernist movement for contemporary progressive purposes and offers insight into the problems still complicating cultural politics. He ultimately reasserts the political dimension of developments often understood in purely aesthetic terms and confronts the self-indulgence and political irresponsibility of certain so-called modernists today. Zusammenfassung Stephen Eric Bronner reads the artistic and intellectual achievements of the modernist project's leading figures against larger social! political! and cultural trends and follows the rise of a flawed yet salient effort at liberation and its clash with modernity. Exploring both the political responsibility of the artist and the manipulation of authorial intention! Bronner reconfigures the modernist movement for contemporary progressive purposes and offers insight into the problems still complicating cultural politics. He ultimately reasserts the political dimension of developments often understood in purely aesthetic terms and confronts the self-indulgence and political irresponsibility of certain so-called modernists today. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of IllustrationsPrefaceAcknowledgments1. The Modernist Impulse: Subjectivity2. Modernism in Context: Notes for a Political Aesthetic3. Experiencing Modernism: A Short History of Expressionist Painting4. The Modernist Spirit: On the Correspondence Between Arnold Schoenberg and Wassily Kandinsky5. Modernism in Motion: F. T. Marinetti and Italian Futurism6. Ecstatic Modernism: The Paintings of Emil Nolde7. Modernism8. Modernism Changes the World: The Russian Avant-Garde and the Revolution9. Modernists in Power: The Literati and the Bavarian Revolution10. Exhibiting Modernism: Paris and Berlin11. The Modernist Adventure: Political Reflections on a Cultural LegacyNotesIndex ix2/2/2012 05_bron15822_00_toc.doc: ...

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Stephen Eric Bronner
• Editore: Columbia University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 29.02.2012
• EAN: 9780231158220
• ISBN: 978-0-231-15822-0
• Pagine: 216
• Serie: Columbia University Press
• Categorie: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Sociologia > Opere generiche, enciclopedie; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Arte > Storia dell'arte; Cultural Studies, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, Philosophy, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / General, ART / Criticism & Theory, ART / European, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, History of Art, Literature: history & criticism, Political science and theory