Research Catalog

Title

Visions and blueprints : avant-garde culture and radical politics in early twentieth-century Europe / edited by Edward Timms and Peter Collier ; with an introduction by Raymond Williams.

Publication

Manchester : Manchester University Press ; New York : Distributed exclusively in the U.S. and Canada by St. Martin's Press, ©1988.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Timms, Edward.
• Collier, Peter, 1939-2019.

Description

xi, 328 pages : illustrations; 25 cm

Subject

• 1900-1999
• Geschichte 1910-1939
• Geschichte 1900-1945
• Geschichte 1900-1939
• Geschichte 1912-1930
• Radicalism > Europe > History > 20th century
• Avant-garde (Aesthetics) > political aspects
• Civilization
• Politics and government
• Radicalism
• Avantgarde
• Geschichte
• Kultur
• Kunst
• Literatur
• Politik
• Politische Ästhetik
• Aufsatzsammlung
• Avant-garde
• Kunstbeleid
• Literature, Modern > 20th century > History and criticism
• Art, European > 20th century
• Avant-garde (Aesthetics) > Political aspects > Europe
• Art européen > 20e siècle
• Avant-garde (esthétique)
• Europe > Politics and government > 1918-1945
• Europe > Civilization > 20th century
• Europe
• Europe
• Europa
• Europe > Politique et culture

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographies and index.

Contents

Introduction : The politics of the avant garde / Raymond Williams -- Culture, ideology, commitment -- Treason of the intellectuals? Benda, Benn and Brecht / Edward Timms -- Dreams of a revolutionary culture : Gramsci, Trotsky and Breton / Peter Collier -- Communism and the avant-garde : the case of Georg Lukás / David Midgley -- Counterfactual artefacts : Walter Benjamin's philosophy of history / Helga Geyer-Ryan -- Modernism and politics -- The futures market : Marinetti and the fascists of Milan / Judy Davies -- The politics of English modernism : Eliot, Pound and Joyce / Michael Long -- Left review, new writing and the broad alliance against Fascism / Margot Heinemann -- The poetry of protest : Auden, Aragon, and Eluard / Peter Collier -- André Malraux and the radical dilemma / Gino Raymond -- Nâzim Hikmet : poetry and politics in Kemalist Turkey / Saime Göksu and Edward Timms -- Masses and minorities -- Freud and the crowd / Paul Connerton -- Nationalism and modernity : German-Jewish writers and the Zionist movement / Ritchie Robertson -- Elitism and the cult of the popular in Spain / Alison Sinclair -- Sexual politics and the avant-garde : from Apollinaire to Woolf / Naomi Segal -- Medium and message -- The triumph of the banal : art in Nazi Germany / Frank Whitford -- De Stijl : style and idea / Elsa Strietman -- Politics and the silent cinema : the cabinet of Dr. Caligari and Battleship Potemkin / Michael Minded -- Theatre as a political forum / Raymond Williams.

ISBN

• 0719022606
• 9780719022609
• 0719022614
• 9780719022616

LCCN

87031943

OCLC

• ocm17108211
• 17108211
• SCSB-9041707

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library