Avant-Garde Art in Everyday Life

by Andres Zervigon, Jared Ash, Jindřich Toman, et al.

Beginning around 1910, vanguard artists demanded that true art go beyond the intellectual and transform daily life. This volume highlights the work of six influential European artists who took this idea into the wider world, where it merged enthusiastically with demands in the industrial marketplace, the nascent mass media, and urban popular culture.

Featured are Piet Zwart, a Dutch designer who brought his minimalist aesthetic vision to...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300166095
• ISBN13: 9780300166095
• Release Date: July 2011
• Publisher: Art Institute of Chicago
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 2.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 9.9" x 11.7"