Surveying the Avant-Garde: Questions on Modernism, Art, and the Americas in Transatlantic Magazines

by Lori Cole

Book Overview

Surveying the Avant-Garde examines the art and literature of the Americas in the early twentieth century through the lens of the questionnaire, a genre as central as the manifesto to the history of the avant-garde.

Questions such as "How do you imagine Latin America?" and "What should American art be?" issued by avant-garde magazines like Im n, a Latin American periodical based in Paris, and Cuba's Revista de Avance...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271080922
• ISBN13: 9780271080925
• Release Date: January 2019
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.0" x 9.4"