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A Cultural History of the Avant-Garde in the Nordic Countries Since 1975


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English | ISBN: 9004444564 | 2022 | 1076 pages | PDF | 104 MB
The Cultural History of the Avant-Garde in the Nordic Countries Since 1975 brings the series of cultural histories of the avant-garde in the Nordic countries up to the present. It discusses revisions and continuations of historical practices since 1975.

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The Poetics of Indeterminacy Rimbaud to Cage (Avant-Garde & Modernism Studies)


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1999 | 346 Pages | ISBN: 0810117649 | PDF | 39 MB
In her seminal study, first published in 1981, Marjorie Perloff argues that the map of Modernist poetry needs to be redrawn to include a central tradition which cannot properly be situated within the Romantic-Symbolist tradition dominating the early twentieth century.

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Richard Wagner and the Art of the Avant-Garde, 1860-1910


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English | ISBN: 1538179997 | 2023 | 212 pages | EPUB, PDF | 8 MB + 8 MB
This book explores the responses of leading European avant-garde painters to the operas of Richard Wagner, the most influential composer of the late nineteenth century. The term avant-garde represents a twenty-first century evaluation of certain nineteenth-century artists working in a variety of advanced styles, rather than a phrase the artists applied to themselves.

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Concepts of the World The French Avant-Garde and the Idea of the International, 1910-1940


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English | September 15, 2022 | ISBN: 0810145073, 0810145065 | True EPUB | 408 pages | 3 MB
How did the avant-garde imagine its interconnected world? And how does this legacy affect our understanding of the global today?

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The Poetics of the Avant-garde in Literature, Arts, and Philosophy


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English | ISBN: 1793615748 | 2020 | 246 pages | EPUB, PDF | 9 MB + 4 MB
The Poetics of the Avant-garde in Literature, Arts, and Philosophy presents a range of chapters written by a highly international group of scholars from disciplines such as literary studies, arts, theatre, and philosophy to analyze the ambitions of avant-garde artists. Together, these essays highlight the interdisciplinary scope of the historic avant-garde and the interconnectedness of its artists.

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Contagion, Hygiene, and the European Avant-Garde


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English | ISBN: 1032284994 | 2023 | 204 pages | EPUB, PDF | 12 MB + 33 MB
This interdisciplinary collection of essays brings together scholars in the fields of art history, theatre, visual culture, and literature to explore intersections between the European avant-garde (c. 1880-1945) and themes of health and hygiene, such as illness, contagion, cleanliness, and contamination.

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The New Avant-Garde in Italy Theoretical Debate and Poetic Practices


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English | 2004 | pages: 261 | ISBN: 0802089941 | PDF | 12,9 mb
The debate on literature and the arts provoked by the Italian neoavant-garde (neoavanguardia) is undoubtedly one of the most animated and controversial the country has witnessed from World War II to the present. Comprising the period between the late 1950s and the late 1960s, the phenomenon of the neoavanguardia involved key writers, critics, and artists, both as insiders – Sanguineti, Balestrini, Guglielmi, Eco, and others – and adversaries such as Pasolini, Calvino, and Moravia.

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