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Patricia Leighten

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Description:The years before World War I were a time of social and political ferment in Europe, which profoundly affected the art world. A major center of this creative tumult was Paris, where many avant-garde artists sought to transform modern art through their engagement with radical politics. In this provocative study of art and anarchism in prewar France, Patricia Leighten argues that anarchist aesthetics and a related politics of form played crucial roles in the development of modern art, only to be suppressed by war fever and then forgotten.a a a a a a aLeighten examines the circle of artistsOCoPablo Picasso, Juan Gris, Frantiiek Kupka, Maurice de Vlaminck, Kees Van Dongen, and othersOCofor whom anarchist politics drove the idea of avant-garde art, exploring how their aesthetic choices negotiated the myriad artistic languages operating in the decade before World War I. Whether they worked on large-scale salon paintings, political cartoons, or avant-garde abstractions, these artists, she shows, were preoccupied with social criticism. Each sought an appropriate subject, medium, style, and audience based on different conceptions of how art influences societyOCoand their choices constantly shifted as they responded to the dilemmas posed by contradictory anarchist ideas. According to anarchist theorists, art should expose the follies and iniquities of the present to the masses, but it should also be the untrammeled expression of the emancipated individual and open a path to a new social order. Revealing how these ideas generated some of modernismOCOs most telling contradictions among the prewar Parisian avant-garde, "The Liberation of Painting" restores revolutionary activism to the broader history of modern art."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 Liberation of Painting: Modernism and Anarchism in Avant-Guerre Paris. To get started finding The Liberation of Painting: Modernism and Anarchism in Avant-Guerre Paris, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 269

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Release: 2014

ISBN: 022600242X

Description: The years before World War I were a time of social and political ferment in Europe, which profoundly affected the art world. A major center of this creative tumult was Paris, where many avant-garde artists sought to transform modern art through their engagement with radical politics. In this provocative study of art and anarchism in prewar France, Patricia Leighten argues that anarchist aesthetics and a related politics of form played crucial roles in the development of modern art, only to be suppressed by war fever and then forgotten.a a a a a a aLeighten examines the circle of artistsOCoPablo Picasso, Juan Gris, Frantiiek Kupka, Maurice de Vlaminck, Kees Van Dongen, and othersOCofor whom anarchist politics drove the idea of avant-garde art, exploring how their aesthetic choices negotiated the myriad artistic languages operating in the decade before World War I. Whether they worked on large-scale salon paintings, political cartoons, or avant-garde abstractions, these artists, she shows, were preoccupied with social criticism. Each sought an appropriate subject, medium, style, and audience based on different conceptions of how art influences societyOCoand their choices constantly shifted as they responded to the dilemmas posed by contradictory anarchist ideas. According to anarchist theorists, art should expose the follies and iniquities of the present to the masses, but it should also be the untrammeled expression of the emancipated individual and open a path to a new social order. Revealing how these ideas generated some of modernismOCOs most telling contradictions among the prewar Parisian avant-garde, "The Liberation of Painting" restores revolutionary activism to the broader history of modern art."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 Liberation of Painting: Modernism and Anarchism in Avant-Guerre Paris. To get started finding The Liberation of Painting: Modernism and Anarchism in Avant-Guerre Paris, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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