Erjavec / Ales Erjavec Aesthetic Revolutions and Twentieth-Century Avant-Garde Movements

1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-0-8223-7566-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 344 Seiten

This collection categorizes aesthetic avant-garde art as art that seeks to politically transform society and argues that such art is essential for political revolution. It provides seven in-depth analyses of twentieth-century aesthetic avant-garde art movements and examines them in relation to revolutionary politics.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Erjavec, Aleš

Ales Erjavec, Erjavec

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: 20./21. Jahrhundert
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Geschichte der Kunstwissenschaft und Kunstkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Kunsttheorie, Kunstphilosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations vii

Acknowledgments xv

Introduction. Aleš Erjavec 1

1. Politics as the Art of the Impossible: The Heteronomy of Italian Futurist Art-Action / Sascha Bru 19

2. 5 X 5 = 25? The Science of Constructivism / John E. Bowlt 42

3. Convulsive Beauty: Surrealism as Aesthetic Revolution / Raymond Spiteri 80

4. Aesthetic Avant-Gardes and Revolutionary Movements from Modern Latin America / David Craven 113

5. All along the Watchtower: Aesthetic Revolution in the United States during the 1960s / Tyrus Miller 145

6. From Unitary Urbanism to the Society of the Spectacle: The Situationist Aesthetic Revolution / Raymond Spiteri 178

7. NSK: Cricial Phenomenology of the State / Miško Šuvakovic 215

Conclusion. Avant-Gardes, Revolutions, and Aesthetics / Aleš Erjavec 255

Bibliography 287

Contributors 311

Index 313

Über Autor(innen)

Aleš Erjavec is Research Professor in the Institute of Philosophy of the Scientific Research Center of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts. He is the author of Postmodernism, Postsocialism and Beyond, and the editor of Postmodernism and the Postsocialist Condition: Politicized Art under Late Socialism.