{"product_id":"communism-and-the-avant-garde-in-weimar-germany-theoretical-explorations-9798888900017","title":"Communism and the Avant-Garde in Weimar Germany:","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eHow did the revolutionary Left view cultural modernists? Their uneasy relationship is illustrated in this book with quotations ranging from Alexander’s ‘Dada is merely an impertinence’ through Trotsky’s ‘There cannot be a proletarian culture’ to Averbakh’s ‘Tear off the masks!’ and Becher’s ‘There can only be one kind of genuine art: fighting art’\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book covers communist attitudes to the whole field of cultural innovation, from the art of the left abstractionists to the literature of the worker-correspondent movement and the music of Weill and Eisler, through to proletarian film, theatre and photography. Historian Ben Fowkes takes full account of the impact on Weimar left culture of external events, such as the First World War, the ‘Great Change’ in the Soviet Union, and internal German developments—including the failure of revolution after 1918 and the rise of Nazism. Each chapter starts with an introduction that provides context for the relevant documents and explores the current state of research.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements\u003cbr\u003eAbbreviations\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1 Introduction: The Avant-Garde and Cultural Innovation\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2 The German Setting\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3 The Shock of War and Its Aftermath\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4 Following the ‘Alexander Line’\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5 The Revolt of Art becomes a Revolt Against Art\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e6 Parallel Developments: The Wider European Context\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e7 The Soviet Cultural Background: The Debates of the 1920s and Their Relevance\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e8 The New Start of 1925 in Germany\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e9 New Forms and New Participants: Worker-Correspondents and Worker-Photographers\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e10 The Impact of the Great Change: The Attempt to Organise and Unify Proletarian Culture\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e11 Political, Literary, and Artistic Aspects of the Proletarian Culture Movement\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConclusion: The End of Weimar and the Coming of Socialist Realism\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAppendix: List of Documents by Chapter\u003cbr\u003eNote on Sources\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Haymarket Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51360945439063,"sku":"9798888900017","price":34.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9798888900017.jpg?v=1754128859","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/communism-and-the-avant-garde-in-weimar-germany-theoretical-explorations-9798888900017","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}