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Title:

The violent muse : violence and the artistic imagination in Europe, 1910-1939 / edited by Jana Howlett and Rod Mengham.

Publisher:

Distributed exclusively in the USA and Canada by St. Martin's Press,
Distributed exclusively in the USA and Canada by St. Martin's Press,

Copyright Date:

c1994

Description:

170 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Arts, Modern--20th century
Avant-garde (Aesthetics)--History--20th century.
Violence in art.
Wars--Special subjects--Wars
Wars--Special subjects--Wars

Other Authors:

Howlett, Jana.
Mengham, Rod, 1953-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [161]-166) and index.

Contents:

Fascism, violence and modernity / David Forgacs -- Dismembering the body politic : Brecht's early plays / Elizabeth Wright -- From Georges Sorel to Blast / Rod Mengham -- Expressionism and the First World War / Michael Minden -- Images of extinction : Paul Nash at the western front / Richard Cork -- Myth-making in Russian war poetry / Katharine Hodgson -- Disasters of war : image and experience in Spain / Alison Sinclair -- Death, war, revolution : the literature of the Russian Civil War / Jana Howlett -- The imaginary violence of Louis-Ferdinand Céline / Michael Tilby -- The ecstasy of battle : some German perspectives on warfare between Modernism and reaction / David Midgley -- The machine : Dada, vorticism and the future / Tim Mathews -- Who whom? violence, politics and the aesthetic / Naomi Segal.

ISBN:

9780719037184 (pbk.)
0719037182 (pbk.)
9780719037177 (hardback)
0719037174 (hardback)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)28548536
(OCoLC)30778967

LCCN:

93028248

Locations:

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

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

PQAX094 -- Wartburg College - Vogel Library (Waverly)