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Anarchist Modernism Art, Politics, and the First American Avant-Garde

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ISBN-10: 0226021041

ISBN-13: 9780226021041

Edition: 2002

Authors: Allan Antliff

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The relationship between the anarchist movement and American art during the years surrounding World War I is most often described as a tenuous affinity between two distinct spheres: political and artistic. InAnarchist Modernism—the first in-depth exploration of the role of anarchism in the formation of early American modernism—Allan Antliff reveals that modernists participated in a wide-ranging movement that encompassed lifestyles, literature, art, and even politics. Drawing on a wealth of previously unknown materials, including interviews and reproductions of lost works, he examines anarchism's influence on a telling cross-section of artists such as Robert Henri, Elie Nadelman, Man Ray,…    
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Book details

List price: $45.00
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 11/30/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 292
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.430
Language: English

Allan Antliff is the author of Art and Anarchy: From the Paris Commune to the Fall of the Berlin Wall(Arsenal Pulp Press, 2007) and Anarchist Modernism: Art, Politics and the First American Avant-Garde(University of Chicago Press), and editor of Only a Beginning: An Anarchist Anthology (Arsenal Pulp Press). He has written extensively for the anarchist press in North America. He teaches in the History in Art department at the University of Victoria and is a Canada Research Chair.

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Modernists against the Academy, 1908-12
The Armory Show Debate
Cosmism or Amorphism
Man Ray's Path to Dada
Hippolyte Havel and the Artists of Revolt
A New Internationalism
Nietzschean Matrix
Anarchist Unanimism
The Denouement of Anarchist Modernism
Conclusion
Notes
Select Bibliography
Index