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The European Avant-garde: 1900-1940
ISBN: 978-0-745-62704-5
September 2004
Polity
272 pages
Andrew Webber presents striking examples to illustrate a time of unprecedented experiment and energetic performance in all aspects of culture. Readings of some of the most important and characteristic avant-garde texts, pictures and films are set against some of the key developments of the period: advances in technology and psychology; the rise of radical politics; the cultural ferment of the modern metropolis; and the upheaval in issues of gender and sexuality. The author’s mediation between a variety of cultural forms, combining political and psychoanalytical modes of understanding, evokes the richness of the age in a manner that students will find both illuminating and provocative.
This volume will be an excellent textbook for courses on the avant-garde in departments of comparative cultural studies, literature and film studies.
provides comparative coverage of the cultural forms produced by the Avant-garde movement from the 6 major European languages: English, French, German, Spanish, Russian and Italian.
deals with a wide range of forms of cultural production, including film, theatre, art, narrative, poetry and exhibition, addressing the relationships between these forms.
informative and accessible for students of a variety of disciplines, primarily in comparative studies, literature and cultural studies, and film.