{"product_id":"legitimizing-the-artist-9781442657731","title":"Legitimizing the Artist","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the production of literary and cultural manifestoes enjoyed a veritable boom and accompanied the rise of many avant-garde movements. \u003cem\u003eLegitimizing the Artist\u003c\/em\u003e considers this phenomenon as a response to a more general crisis of legitimation that artists had been struggling with for decades. The crucial question for artists, confronted by the conservative values of the dominant bourgeoisie and the economic logic of triumphant capitalism, was how to justify their work in terms that did not reduce art to a mere commodity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this work Luca Somigli discusses several European artistic movements – decadentism, Italian futurism, vorticism, and imagism – and argues for the centrality of the works of F.T. Marinetti in the transition from a \u003cem\u003efin de siécle\u003c\/em\u003e decadent poetics, exemplified by the manifestoes of Anatole Baju, to a properly avant-garde project aiming at a complete re\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53187501883735,"sku":"9781442657731","price":26.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/legitimizing-the-artist-9781442657731","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}