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Author:

Antliff, Mark, 1957- author.

Title:

Sculptors against the state : anarchism and the Anglo-European avant-garde / Mark Antliff.

Publisher:

The Pennsylvania State University Press,

Copyright Date:

2021

Description:

xii, 256 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Sculpture, European--20th century.
Gaudier-Brzeska, Henri,--1891-1915--Criticism and interpretation.
Epstein, Jacob,--1880-1959--Criticism and interpretation.
Boccioni, Umberto,--1882-1916--Criticism and interpretation.
Avant-garde (Aesthetics)--Europe--History--20th century.
Anarchism and art--Europe--History--20th century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 232-247) and index.

Contents:

Introduction : anarchism then and now -- "Life's joy" : censorship, homosexuality, and Jacob Epstein's Tomb of Oscar Wilde -- Sculpting an antidemocratic insurrection : Umberto Boccioni's Unique forms of continuity in space -- Henri Gaudier-Brzeska's La guerre sociale : satire, Apaches, and antimilitarism -- Into the vortex : Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, Ezra Pound, and sculptural nominalism -- Conclusion : anarchist aesthetics and ideology; shaping states of mind.

Summary:

"Considers the relation of anarchist ideology to avant-garde sculpture through an examination of iconic artists and writers whose work transformed European modernism: Jacob Epstein, Oscar Wilde, Umberto Boccioni, F. T. Marinetti, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, and Ezra Pound"-- Provided by publisher.

Series:

Refiguring modernism

ISBN:

0271089458
9780271089454

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1240413357

LCCN:

2021017326

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)