{"product_id":"concepts-of-the-world-effie-rentzou-9780810145061","title":"Concepts of the World: The French Avant-Garde and the Idea of the International, 1910-1940 Volume 42","description":"\u003cb\u003eHow did the avant-garde imagine its interconnected world? And how does this legacy affect our understanding of the global today?\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The writers and artists of the French avant-garde aspired to reach a global audience that would be wholly transformed by their work. In this study, Effie Rentzou delves deep into their depictions of the interwar world as an international and modern landscape, one marked by a varied cosmopolitanism. The avant-garde's conceptualization of the world paralleled, rejected, or expanded prevailing notions of the global sphere. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The historical avant garde--which encompassed movements like futurism, Dada, and surrealism--was self-consciously international, operating across global networks and developed with the whole world as its horizon and its public. In the heady period between the end of the Belle Époque and the tumult of World War II, both individual artists (including Guillaume Apollinaire, Blaise Cendrars, Francis Picabia, Louis Aragon, Leonora Carrington, and Nicolas Calas) and collective endeavors (such as surrealist magazines and exhibitions) grappled with contemporary anxieties about economic growth, imperialism, and colonialism, as well as various universalist, cosmopolitan, and internationalist visions. By probing these works, \u003ci\u003eConcepts of the World\u003c\/i\u003e offers an alternative narrative of globalization, one that integrates the avant-garde's enthusiasm for, as well as resistance to, the process. Rentzou identifies within the avant-garde a powerful political language that expressed the ambivalence of living and creating in an increasingly globalized world--a language that profoundly shaped the way the world has been conceptualized and is experienced today.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Effie Rentzou\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0810145065\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780810145061\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Northwestern University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/15\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 408\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.25lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.91w x 1.02d","brand":"Effie Rentzou","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44059798044927,"sku":"9780810145061","price":45.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_482773d0-2779-4a63-87be-aef040b39ecd.jpg?v=1685060398","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/concepts-of-the-world-effie-rentzou-9780810145061","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}