Introduction: Packing the suitcase -- A new art, one and undivided -- Box 1: Expressionisms -- A total art, pure and real -- Box 2: Cubisms -- Anti-art, non-art, art! -- Box 3: Futurisms -- Cafés, cities and centres -- Box 4: Vorticism -- New men in old Europe -- Box 5: Dadaisms -- A global avant-garde -- Box 6: Ultraism and other isms -- The past appropriated -- Box 7: Constructivisms -- The plural present -- Box 8: Surrealisms -- The futures of theory -- Box 9: New Objectivities -- Conclusion: En route.
Summary:
The works of the classic European avant-gardes (cubism, futurism, expressionism, Dadaism, constructivism and many other -isms) today still strike many students of modernism as strange or incomprehensible. Is this art? Do we have to take a sound poem seriously? How, at all. are we to read and interpret avant-garde works? And what on earth is the fourth dimension in physics that fascinated so many avant-gardists? This engaging introduction is designed to answer all these questions and more.
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