Communism and the Avant-Garde in Weimar Germany: A Selection of Documents

by Ben Fowkes

How did the revolutionary Left view cultural modernists? Their uneasy relationship is illustrated in this book with quotations ranging from Alexander's 'Dada is merely an impertinence' through Trotsky's 'There cannot be a proletarian culture' to Averbakh's 'Tear off the masks!' and Becher's 'There can only be one kind of genuine art: fighting art.' This book covers communist attitudes to the whole field of cultural innovation, from the art of the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004515240
• ISBN13: 9789004515246
• Release Date: November 2022
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 504 Pages