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Nazi Germany's book burnings, its campaign against degenerate art, and its persecution of experimental artists pushed the avant-garde to the brink of extinction. This book looks at how the avant-garde came back, finding a new purpose in the wake of the war.

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Introduction: Visions of Violence; Chapter One: Deaths and Reconfigurations: Avant-Garde Time after Fascism; Chapter Two: Peter Weiss and the Exilic Body; Chapter Three: Nouveau Realismus: The Male Body and the Space of History; Chapter Four: Holocaust Simulations: Evoking Bare Life; Chapter Five: Technologies of Fascism and the Poetics of Silence and Light; Chapter Six: Alexander Kluge's Impossible Film; Chapter Seven: Phantasmagorias of Normalcy: Avant-Gardes after Unification; Index.

Visions of Violence German Avantgardes After

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    A Paperback by Marjorie Perloff, Marjorie Perloff, Rainer Rumold

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      Publisher: Northwestern University Press
      Publication Date: 12/30/2007 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780810124714, 978-0810124714
      ISBN10: 0810124718
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      Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Nazi Germany's book burnings, its campaign against degenerate art, and its persecution of experimental artists pushed the avant-garde to the brink of extinction. This book looks at how the avant-garde came back, finding a new purpose in the wake of the war.

      Table of Contents
      Introduction: Visions of Violence; Chapter One: Deaths and Reconfigurations: Avant-Garde Time after Fascism; Chapter Two: Peter Weiss and the Exilic Body; Chapter Three: Nouveau Realismus: The Male Body and the Space of History; Chapter Four: Holocaust Simulations: Evoking Bare Life; Chapter Five: Technologies of Fascism and the Poetics of Silence and Light; Chapter Six: Alexander Kluge's Impossible Film; Chapter Seven: Phantasmagorias of Normalcy: Avant-Gardes after Unification; Index.

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