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The years before World War I were a time of profound social and political ferment in Europe that deeply affected the art world. In this title, the author argues that anarchist aesthetics and a related politics of form played crucial roles in the development of modern art, only to be suppressed soon after the war and then forgotten.

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      Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
      Publication Date: 08/11/2013
      ISBN13: 9780226471389, 978-0226471389
      ISBN10: 0226471381
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      The arts: general topics Philosophy: aesthetics

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      Book Synopsis
      The years before World War I were a time of profound social and political ferment in Europe that deeply affected the art world. In this title, the author argues that anarchist aesthetics and a related politics of form played crucial roles in the development of modern art, only to be suppressed soon after the war and then forgotten.

      Trade Review
      "The Liberation of Painting is the real thing: a mature work by a paradigm-shifting scholar who has been publishing leading-edge scholarship on several of the artists discussed here over the course of her distinguished professional career. This book will make its mark in studies of the relationship between avant-garde art and radical politics, as the groundwork has already been put down by two decades of work by Patricia Leighten in her consistently strong and persuasive voice." (Elizabeth Childs, Washington University in St. Louis)"

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