Crisis: The Avant-Garde and Modernism in Critical Modes

Sascha Bru · Kate Kangaslahti · Li Lin · Iveta Slavkova · David Ayers

Sep 2022 · European Avant-Garde and Modernism Studies Book 7 · Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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Notions of crisis have long charged the study of the European avant-garde and modernism, reflecting the often turbulent nature of their development. Throughout their history, the avant-garde and modernists have both confronted and instigated crises, be they economic or political, aesthetic or philosophical, collective or individual, local or global, short or perennial. The seventh volume in the series European Avant-Garde and Modernism Studies addresses the myriad ways in which the avant-garde and modernism have responded and related to crisis from the late nineteenth to the twenty-first century.

How have Europe’s avant-garde and modernist movements given aesthetic shape to their crisis-laden trajectory? Given the many different watershed moments the avant-garde and modernism have faced over the centuries, what common threads link the critical points of their development? Alternatively, what kinds of crises have their experimental practices and critical modes yielded? The volume assembles case studies reflecting upon these questions and more from across all areas of avant-garde and modernist activity, including visual art, literature, music, architecture, photography, theatre, performance, curatorial practice, fashion and design.

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Prof. dr. Sascha Bru, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium; Dr. Kate Kangaslahti, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium; Dr. Li Lin, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium; Prof. dr. Iveta Slavkova, American University of Paris, Paris, France; Prof. dr. David Ayers, University of Kent, Canterbury, United Kingdom.

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