Modernism at the Barricades: Aesthetics, Politics, Utopia

by Stephen Eric Bronner

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231158238
• ISBN13: 9780231158237
• Release Date: August 2014
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.6" x 8.6"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher