Anarchism and the Avant-Garde

Radical Arts and Politics in Perspective
Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-90-04-41041-1
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 38, 280 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 544 g

Reihe: Avant-Garde Critical Studies

Anarchism and the Avant-Garde: Radical Arts and Politics in Perspective contributes to the continuing debate on the encounter of the classical anarchisms (1860s-1940s) and the artistic and literary avant-gardes of the same period, probing its dimensions and limits. Case studies on Dadaism, decadence, fauvism, neo-impressionism, symbolism, and various anarchisms explore the influence anarchism had on the avant-gardes and reflect on avant-garde tendencies within anarchism. This volume also explores the divergence of anarchism and the avant-gardes. It offers a rich examination of politics and arts, and it complements an ongoing discourse with theoretical tools to better assess the aesthetic, social, and political cross-pollination that took place between the avant-gardes and the anarchists in Europe.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Kosuch, Carolin

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Anarchismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: 19. Jahrhundert
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

Carolin Kosuch

Part 1: Frictions: Aesthetics or Politics

1 The Symbolist Movement: Anarchism and the Avant-Garde in Fin de SiècleFrance

Richard Shryock

2 Egoism, Homosexuality, and Joie de vivre: Jacob Epstein’s Tomb of Oscar Wilde

Mark Antliff

3 A Politics of Technique: Fauvism and Anarchist Individualism

Patricia Leighten

4 Anti-Art? Dada and Anarchy

Daniela Padularosa

Part 2: Fractions: Declining – Pioneering - Redeeming

5 Decadent Anarchism, Anarchistic Decadence: Contradictory Cultures, Complementary Politics

David Weir

6 ‘We Are Too Far Ahead to be Understood’: Vanguard Creation in Fin de Siècle Anarchism

Carolin Kosuch

7 ‘Theocratic Anarchism’? Walter Benjamin and Gershom Scholem in Switzerland: Anarchism, Messianism and the Avant-Garde

Gabriele Guerra

Part 3: Focal Points: Art and Education in Local and Transnational Settings

8 Syndicalism and Art in France before 1914: Propaganda and Prefiguration

Constance Bantman

9 Anarchism, Geography and Painting: Élisée Reclus and Social Art

Federico Ferretti

10 Teaching Revolution through Arts? Anarchism, the Avant-garde and Education Critically Revisited

Piotr Laskowski

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Carolin Kosuch, Dr. phil. (2014) University of Leipzig, is Research Associate at the University of Göttingen. She has published extensively on nineteenth-century European history, including Missratene Söhne. Anarchismus und Sprachkritik im Fin de Siècle (Göttingen, 2015).