Modernism, Cultural Production, and the British Avant-garde
Modernism, Cultural Production, and the British Avant-garde
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USDExposing the links between art, literature and early twentieth-century capitalism, Edward Comentale demonstrates how apparently progressive avant-garde movements, in their celebration of individualism, competition and labor, collaborated with a market defined by a monstrous increase in production and consumption. Comentale's interdisciplinary study examines art and sculpture as well as writing by Virginia Woolf and T.S. Eliot, among others, in the light of psychoanalytic, economic and political theory. This book will be of interest to scholars of literary and cultural modernism.
- An interdisciplinary study of the relation between art, literature and the capitalist market
- Contains original research on letters and diaries written during World War One
- Examines revolutions in high art and sculpture in relation to more popular trends in early twentieth-century culture
Reviews & endorsements
Review of the hardback: 'This is a consistently, often astonishingly, interesting book …' Modernism/Modernity
Review of the hardback: '… a brilliant attempt to rescue one form of modernism (the 'classical') as against another, more problematic one (the 'romantic'). This is a bold move … stick with a book that makes a compelling case for its thesis … Comentale's book is an important one…' Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory
Product details
October 2009Paperback
9780521120975
272 pages
229 × 152 × 156 mm
0.4kg
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Table of Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: On the nature of being otherwise
- Part I. Critique:
- 1. Fascism and/or liberalism: the avant-garde and modern capital
- 2. 'No end, but addition': T. S. Eliot and the tragic economy of high modernism
- Part II. Construction:
- 3. The modern temple: T. E. Hulme and the construction of classicism
- 4. 'A fairly horrible business': labour, World War I, and the production of modern art
- 5. Thesmophoria: suffragettes, sympathetic magic, and feminist classicism
- Notes
- Index.
