Modernism, Cultural Production, and the British Avant-Garde

by Edward P. Comentale

Book Overview

Edward Comentale exposes the links between art, literature and early twentieth-century capitalism. Comentale shows how apparently progressive avant-garde movements in their celebration of individualism, competition and labor worked hand in hand with a market defined by a monstrous increase in production and consumption. Most importantly, he unearths an alternative modernist practice based on a special kind of production that both critiques and challenges...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521120977
• ISBN13: 9780521120975
• Release Date: September 2009
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.89 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"