The Invention of Politics in the European Avant-Garde, 1906-1940 (Avant-Garde Critical Studies 19) (Avant Garde Critical Studies)

"In 1906, for the first time in his life, F.T. Marinetti connected the term 'avant-garde' with the idea of the future, thus paving the way for what is now commonly called the 'modernist' or 'historical avant-garde'. Since 1906 the ties between the early twentieth-century European aesthetic vanguard and politics have been a matter of debate. With a century gone by, The Invention of Politics in the European Avant-Garde takes stock of this debate. Opening with a critical introduction to the vast research archive on the subject, this book proposes to view the avant-garde as a political force in its own right that may have produced solutions to problems irresolvable within its democratic political constellation. In a series of essays that combine close readings of texts and plastic works with a thorough knowledge of their political context, the book looks at avant-garde works as media producing political thought and experience. Covering the canonised avant-garde movements of Futurism, Expressionism, Dadaism and Surrealism, but also focussing on the avant-garde in Europe’s geographical outskirts, this book will appeal to all those interested in the modernist avant-garde"-- Provided by publisher The Phantom League : The Centennial Debate On The Avant-garde And Politics / Sascha Bru -- Sometimes I Spit For Pleasure On My Mother's Portrait : On The Strategic Uses Of Inflammatory Rhetoric In Surrealism / Kirsten Strom -- Framing Literary Speech Acts Of Political Modernity : Notes On Hermann Broch, Karl Kraus And Expressionism / Gunther Martens -- The Rhetoric Of Violence : Avant-garde Manifestoes And The Myth Of Racial Community / Laura Winkiel -- Uncanny Polemics And Ambivalent Reappraisals : The French Debate On Surrealism On The Eve Of The Cold War / Steven Engles -- Ecstatic Subjects : Citizenship And Sex In Czech Surrealism / Malynne Sternstein -- From A New Art To A New Life And A New Man : Avant-garde Utopianism In Dada / Hubert F. Van Den Berg -- The Futurist Political Party / Günther Berghaus -- Surrealism And The Political : The Case Of Nadja / Raymond Spiteri -- Cultural Hegemony And Avant-garde Rivalry : The Ambivalent Reception Of Futurism In France, England And Russia / Thomas Hunkeler -- A Europeanizing Geography : The First Spanish Avant-garde's Remapping Of Castile (1914-1925) / Renée M. Silverman -- Dragging Nordic Horses Past The Sludge Of Extremes : The Beginnings Of The Icelandic Avant-garde / Benedikt Hjartarson. Edited By Sascha Bru And Gunther Martens. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. In 1906, for the first time in his life, the onrushing Futurist F.T. Marinctti connected the term "avant-garde" to the idea of the future (Lista 2001: 28).