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The Janus Face of the German Avant-Garde: From Expressionism Toward Postmodernism (Avant-Garde & Modernism Studies)

Rainer Rumold

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Description:Among the avant-garde of the early twentieth century, the German movement remains one of the least understood in the current avant-garde and modernism debates. Rainer Rumold fills this gap with the first large-scale reassessment of the heyday and afterlife of German expressionist and Dada productions as a prolonged crisis of literary culture. Mapping avant-garde activity in Germany in a series of critical constellations from roughly 1910 to the post-World War II period, Rumold divides its history into three phases: the "revolt" of contradictory and competing discourses in the teens and twenties; the conservative reversal versus a radicalized anti-art stance of the avant-garde in exile; and the "post-avant-garde." The latter is viewed as a unique step toward the postmodern represented in the late (postfascist) work of the once-radical expressionist Gottfried Benn and the neo-avant-gardists Helmut Heissbenbuttel and Hans Magnus Enzensberger. The author notes a symptomatic oscillation between the avant-garde's wish to abolish "art" and the apotheosis of art as a form of redemption -- the "Janus face" of the title. In highly original readings of Carl Einstein, Walter Benjamin, Bertolt Brecht, George Grosz, and others, Rumold shows us a German avant-garde less opposed to the wholesale destruction of bourgeois tradition than its European counterparts and more committed to finding new ways for artworks to function within the modernist sphere, contributing to the progressive erosion of the identity of art that carries over into the postmodern experience.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Janus Face of the German Avant-Garde: From Expressionism Toward Postmodernism (Avant-Garde & Modernism Studies). To get started finding The Janus Face of the German Avant-Garde: From Expressionism Toward Postmodernism (Avant-Garde & Modernism Studies), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: Among the avant-garde of the early twentieth century, the German movement remains one of the least understood in the current avant-garde and modernism debates. Rainer Rumold fills this gap with the first large-scale reassessment of the heyday and afterlife of German expressionist and Dada productions as a prolonged crisis of literary culture. Mapping avant-garde activity in Germany in a series of critical constellations from roughly 1910 to the post-World War II period, Rumold divides its history into three phases: the "revolt" of contradictory and competing discourses in the teens and twenties; the conservative reversal versus a radicalized anti-art stance of the avant-garde in exile; and the "post-avant-garde." The latter is viewed as a unique step toward the postmodern represented in the late (postfascist) work of the once-radical expressionist Gottfried Benn and the neo-avant-gardists Helmut Heissbenbuttel and Hans Magnus Enzensberger. The author notes a symptomatic oscillation between the avant-garde's wish to abolish "art" and the apotheosis of art as a form of redemption -- the "Janus face" of the title. In highly original readings of Carl Einstein, Walter Benjamin, Bertolt Brecht, George Grosz, and others, Rumold shows us a German avant-garde less opposed to the wholesale destruction of bourgeois tradition than its European counterparts and more committed to finding new ways for artworks to function within the modernist sphere, contributing to the progressive erosion of the identity of art that carries over into the postmodern experience.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Janus Face of the German Avant-Garde: From Expressionism Toward Postmodernism (Avant-Garde & Modernism Studies). To get started finding The Janus Face of the German Avant-Garde: From Expressionism Toward Postmodernism (Avant-Garde & Modernism Studies), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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