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by Stephen Eric Bronner

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Stephen Eric Bronner revisits the modernist project's groundbreaking innovations, itsexperimental imagination, and its utopian politics. Reading the artistic and intellectual achievements of the movement's leading figures against larger social, political, and cultural trends, he follows the rise of a flawed yet salient effort at liberation and its confrontation with modernity.

Modernism at the Barricades features chapters on expressionism, futurism, surrealism, and revolutionary art and includes fresh perspectives on the work of Arnold Schoenberg, Wassily Kandinsky, and Emil Nolde, among others. The volume illuminates an international avant garde intent on resisting bureaucracy, standardization, scientific rationality, and the increasing commodification of mass culture. Modernists sought new ways of feeling, new forms of expression, and new possibilities of experience while seeking to refashion society. Liberation was their aim, along with the invigoration of daily life--yet their process entangled political resistance with the cultural.

Exploring both the political responsibility of the artist and the manipulation of authorial intention, Bronner reconfigures the modernist movement for contemporary progressive purposes and offers insight into the problems still complicating cultural politics. He ultimately reasserts the political dimension of developments often understood in purely aesthetic terms and confronts the self-indulgence and political irresponsibility of certain so-called modernists today. The result is a long overdue reinterpretation and rehabilitation of the modernist legacy for a new age.

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  • Title Modernism at the Barricades: Aesthetics, Politics, Utopia
  • Author Stephen Eric Bronner
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition 1st
  • Pages 216
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Columbia University Press, New York
  • Publication date 2012
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Illustrated, Index, Recycled Paper, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780231158220 / 023115822X
  • Weight 0.9 lbs (0.41 kg)
  • Dimensions 9 x 6 x 0.7 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 1.78 cm)
  • Category Art & Art Instruction
  • Library of Congress subjects Arts, Modern - 20th century, Aesthetics, Modern - 20th century
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2012005414
  • Dewey Decimal Code 700.411

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Stephen Eric Bronner is Distinguished Professor (PII) of Political Science at Rutgers University. His books include Socialism Unbound: Principles, Practices, and Prospects; Of Critical Theory and Its Theorists; Camus: Portrait of a Moralist; and Reclaiming the Enlightenment: Toward a Politics of Radical Engagement.
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