Communism and the Avant-Garde in Weimar Germany : : A Selection of Documents / / Ben Fowkes.
How did the revolutionary Left view cultural modernists? Their uneasy relationship is illustrated in this book with quotations ranging from Alexander’s ‘Dada is merely an impertinence’ through Trotsky’s ‘There cannot be a proletarian culture’ to Averbakh’s ‘Tear off the masks!’ and Becher’s ‘There c...
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| Superior document: | Historical Materialism Book Series ; 269 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2023. ©2023 |
| Year of Publication: | 2023 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Historical Materialism Book Series ;
269. Social Sciences E-Books Online, Collection 2023. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (504 pages) |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material / Ben Fowkes
- Copyright Page / Ben Fowkes
- Preface / Ben Fowkes
- Acknowledgements / Ben Fowkes
- Abbreviations / Ben Fowkes
- Chapter 1 Introduction: The Avant-Garde and Cultural Innovation / Ben Fowkes
- Chapter 2 The German Setting / Ben Fowkes
- Chapter 3 The Shock of War and Its Aftermath / Ben Fowkes
- Chapter 4 Following the ‘Alexander Line’ / Ben Fowkes
- Chapter 5 The Revolt of Art Becomes a Revolt against Art / Ben Fowkes
- Chapter 6 Parallel Developments: The Wider European Context / Ben Fowkes
- Chapter 7 The Soviet Cultural Background: The Debates of the 1920s and Their Relevance / Ben Fowkes
- Chapter 8 The New Start of 1925 in Germany / Ben Fowkes
- Chapter 9 New Forms and New Participants: Worker-Correspondents and Worker-Photographers / Ben Fowkes
- Chapter 10 The Impact of the Great Change: The Attempt to Organise and Unify Proletarian Culture / Ben Fowkes
- Chapter 11 Political, Literary, and Artistic Aspects of the Proletarian Culture Movement / Ben Fowkes
- Conclusion: The End of Weimar and the Coming of Socialist Realism / Ben Fowkes
- Appendix List of Documents by Chapter / Ben Fowkes
- Note on Sources / Ben Fowkes
- Bibliography / Ben Fowkes
- Index / Ben Fowkes.