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Embattled Avant-Gardes: Modernism's Resistance to Commodity Culture in Europe Walter L. Adamson
Embattled Avant-Gardes: Modernism's Resistance to Commodity Culture in Europe
Walter L. Adamson
Offers an exploration of the avant-garde practices through which the modernist generations after 1900 resisted the rise of commodity culture as a threat to authentic cultural expression. This book charts the rise and fall of modernist aspirations in movements and individuals as diverse as Ruskin, Marinetti, Kandinsky, Bauhaus, and Purism.
448 pages
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | August 17, 2009 |
| ISBN13 | 9780520261532 |
| Publishers | University of California Press |
| Pages | 448 |
| Dimensions | 143 × 219 × 27 mm · 678 g |
| Language | English |