Theorizing the Avant-Garde (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780521648691)

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, Murphy Richard
ISBN-10: 0521648696
ISBN-13: 9780521648691
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 05/13/1999
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.86lbs
Size: 8.47h x 5.44w x 0.66d