The Liberation of Painting: Modernism and Anarchism in Avant-Guerre Paris

by Patricia Leighten

The years before World War I were a time of social and political ferment in Europe, which profoundly affected the art world. A major center of this creative tumult was Paris, where many avant-garde artists sought to transform modern art through their engagement with radical politics. In this provocative study of art and anarchism in prewar France, Patricia Leighten argues that anarchist aesthetics and a related politics of form played crucial roles...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226471381
• ISBN13: 9780226471389
• Release Date: November 2013
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 3.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 8.8" x 11.2"