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Offers an exploration of the avant-garde practices through which the modernist generations after 1900 resisted the rise of commodity culture as a threat to authentic cultural expression. This book charts the rise and fall of modernist aspirations in movements and individuals as diverse as Ruskin, Marinetti, Kandinsky, Bauhaus, and Purism.

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"This [is an] erudite, richly comparative study of avant-garde aesthetics and public engagement." -- Laura Winkiel Modernism/Modernity

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Preface Introduction PART ONE: EARLY AVANT-GARDE MODERNISM 1. Intellectuals, Commodity Culture, and Religions of Art in the Nineteenth Century 2. F.T. Marinetti 3. Guillaume Apollinaire 4. Wassily Kandinsky PART TWO: VARIETIES OF INTERWAR MODERNISM 5. The Rise and Fall of Design Modernism: Bauhaus, De Stijl, and Purism 6. Futurism and Its Modernist Rivals in Fascist Italy 7. Andre Breton's Surrealism 8. The Critical Modernism of Herbert Read Conclusion Notes Index

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      Publisher: University of California Press
      Publication Date: 17/08/2009
      ISBN13: 9780520261532, 978-0520261532
      ISBN10: 0520261534
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Offers an exploration of the avant-garde practices through which the modernist generations after 1900 resisted the rise of commodity culture as a threat to authentic cultural expression. This book charts the rise and fall of modernist aspirations in movements and individuals as diverse as Ruskin, Marinetti, Kandinsky, Bauhaus, and Purism.

      Trade Review
      "This [is an] erudite, richly comparative study of avant-garde aesthetics and public engagement." -- Laura Winkiel Modernism/Modernity

      Table of Contents
      Preface Introduction PART ONE: EARLY AVANT-GARDE MODERNISM 1. Intellectuals, Commodity Culture, and Religions of Art in the Nineteenth Century 2. F.T. Marinetti 3. Guillaume Apollinaire 4. Wassily Kandinsky PART TWO: VARIETIES OF INTERWAR MODERNISM 5. The Rise and Fall of Design Modernism: Bauhaus, De Stijl, and Purism 6. Futurism and Its Modernist Rivals in Fascist Italy 7. Andre Breton's Surrealism 8. The Critical Modernism of Herbert Read Conclusion Notes Index

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