How to Be Avant-Garde: Modern Artists and the Quest to End Art

by Morgan Falconer

"Art has poisoned our life," proclaimed De Stijl cofounder Theo van Doesburg. Reacting to the tumultuous crises of the twentieth century, especially the horrors of World War I, bands of writers and artists explored different ways to end art by having it become part of how they lived. In dynamic engagement with these revolutionary groups, Morgan Falconer starts with Futurist founder Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, whose manifesto extolling speed, destruction,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1324051426
• ISBN13: 9781324051428
• Release Date: February 2025
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 288 Pages