Radical Art and the Formation of the Avant-Garde Cottington David
An authoritative re-definition of the social, cultural and visual history of the emergence of the "avant-garde" in Paris and LondonOver the past fifty years, the term "avant-garde" has come to shape…
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An authoritative re-definition of the social, cultural and visual history of the emergence of the "avant-garde" in Paris and LondonOver the past fifty years, the term "avant-garde" has come to shape discussions of European culture and modernity, ubiquitously taken for granted but rarely defined. This ground-breaking book develops an original and searching methodology that fundamentally reconfigures the social, cultural, and visual context of the emergence of the artistic avant-garde in Paris and London before 1915, bringing the material history of its formation into clearer and more detailed focus than ever before.Drawing on a wealth of disciplinary evidence, from socio-economics to histories of sexuality, bohemia, consumerism, politics, and popular culture, David Cottington explores the different models of cultural collectivity in, and presumed hierarchies between,
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