Anarchism and the avant-garde : : a radical arts and politics in perspective / / edited by Carolin Kosuch.

• Superior document: Avant-Garde Critical Studies ; volume 38
• TeilnehmendeR: Kosuch, Carolin, 1981-
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden;, Boston : : Brill Rodopi,, [2020]
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Avant garde critical studies ; 38.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

Anarchism and the Avant-Garde: Radical Arts and Politics in Perspective contributes to the continuing debate on the encounter of the classical anarchisms (1860s−1940s) and the artistic and literary avant-gardes of the same period, probing its dimensions and limits. Case studies on Dadaism, decadence...

Table of Contents

• Front Matter
• Copyright Page
• Illustrations
• Notes on Contributors
• Introduction / Carolin Kosuch
• Frictions: Aesthetics or Politics
• The Symbolist Movement: Anarchism and the Avant-Garde in Fin de Siècle France / Richard Shryock
• Egoism, Homosexuality, and Joie de vivre: Jacob Epstein’s Tomb of Oscar Wilde / Mark Antliff
• A Politics of Technique: Fauvism and Anarchist Individualism / Patricia Leighten
• Anti-Art? Dada and Anarchy / Daniela Padularosa
• Fractions: Declining – Pioneering – Redeeming
• Decadent Anarchism, Anarchistic Decadence: Contradictory Cultures, Complementary Politics / David Weir
• ‘We Are Too Far Ahead to be Understood’: Vanguard Creation in Fin de Siècle Anarchism / Carolin Kosuch
• ‘Theocratic Anarchism’? Walter Benjamin and Gershom Scholem in Switzerland: Anarchism, Messianism and the Avant-Garde / Gabriele Guerra
• Focal Points: Art and Education in Local and Transnational Settings
• Syndicalism and Art in France before 1914: Propaganda and Prefiguration / Constance Bantman
• Anarchism, Geography and Painting: Élisée Reclus and Social Art / Federico Ferretti
• Teaching Revolution through Art? Anarchism, the Avant-garde and Education Critically Revisited / Piotr Laskowski
• Back Matter
• Index.