Theorizing the Avant-Garde (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521632911)

In Theorizing the Avant-Garde Richard Murphy mobilizes theories of the postmodern to challenge our understanding of the avant-garde and assesses its importance for the debates among theorists of postmodernism such as Jameson, Eagleton, Lyotard and Habermas. Murphy reconsiders the classic formulations of the avant-garde and investigates the relationship between art and politics via a discussion of Marcuse, Adorno and Benjamin. Combining close textual readings of a wide range of films as well as works of literature, this interdisciplinary project will appeal to all those interested in twentieth-century modernist movements and postmodernity.

Author: Richard Murphy
ISBN-10: 0521632919
ISBN-13: 9780521632911
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 05/13/1999
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.38lbs
Size: 8.96h x 5.82w x 1.07d