Theorizing the Avant-Garde

by Richard Murphy

Book Overview

In Modernism, Expressionism and Theories of the Avant Garde, Richard Murphy mobilises theories of the postmodern to challenge our understanding of the avant-garde. He assesses the importance of the avant-garde for contemporary culture and for the debates among theorists of postmodernism such as Jameson, Eagleton, Lyotard and Habermas. Murphy reconsiders the classic formulation of the avant-garde in Lukacs and Bloch, especially their discussion of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521648696
• ISBN13: 9780521648691
• Release Date: May 1999
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 8.5"