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        Lifestyle, Sport & Leisure
        February 2018

        Sport and modernism in the visual arts in Europe, c. 1909–39

        by Bernard Vere

        This book highlights sport as one of the key inspirations for an international range of modernist artists. Sport emerged as a corollary of the industrial revolution and developed into a prominent facet of modernity as it spread across Europe at the turn of the twentieth century. It was celebrated by modernists both for its spectacle and for the suggestive ways in which society could be remodelled on dynamic, active and rational lines. Artists included sport themes in a wide variety of media and frequently referenced it in their own writings. Sport was also political, most notably under fascist and Soviet regimes, but also in democratic countries, and the works produced by modernists engage with various ideologies. This book provides new readings of aspects of a number of avant-garde movements, including Italian futurism, cubism, German expressionism, Le Corbusier's architecture, Soviet constructivism, Italian rationalism and the Bauhaus.

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        The Arts
        August 2010

        Women artists between the Wars

        'A fair field and no favour'

        by Katy Deepwell

        Starting with a critique of existing methodologies and histories of the period, this book examines the production of women artists, looking at different areas and aspects of their activities, and particularly contrasting the lives of different generations of women artists. Many of these women's names or their works are not familiar in art histories of the twentieth century. The book analyses how women artists' presence which was consistently one third of the artists in many major exhibiting groups became less than 10% of the museum purchases and in art historical texts for this period. Comparisons are made between the opportunities presented to women artists and those of their male peers in the light of considerable change and restructuring within the art world in Britain during this period, principally due to the growing influence of modernism in the art market. ;

      • Trusted Partner
        Lifestyle, Sport & Leisure
        February 2018

        Sport and modernism in the visual arts in Europe, c. 1909–39

        by Bernard Vere

        This book highlights sport as one of the key inspirations for an international range of modernist artists. Sport emerged as a corollary of the industrial revolution and developed into a prominent facet of modernity as it spread across Europe at the turn of the twentieth century. It was celebrated by modernists both for its spectacle and for the suggestive ways in which society could be remodelled on dynamic, active and rational lines. Artists included sport themes in a wide variety of media and frequently referenced it in their own writings. Sport was also political, most notably under fascist and Soviet regimes, but also in democratic countries, and the works produced by modernists engage with various ideologies. This book provides new readings of aspects of a number of avant-garde movements, including Italian futurism, cubism, German expressionism, Le Corbusier's architecture, Soviet constructivism, Italian rationalism and the Bauhaus.

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        The Arts
        May 2016

        Watching the Red dawn

        The American avant-garde and the Soviet Union

        by Barnaby Haran

        This book offers the first sustained examination of the cultural relations of the American and Soviet avant-gardes in a period of major transformation. From the formation of the USSR in 1922 until its recognition by the American government, American avant-garde artists, writers and designers watched the 'Red Dawn' with fascination, enthusiastically reporting on its post-revolutionary cultural developments in articles and books, and brought these works to an American audience in ground-breaking exhibitions. Americans also emulated and adapted aspects of Soviet culture, as in the case of the New Playwrights Theatre, a group that mixed Russian avant-garde theatrical techniques with jazz, vaudeville and slapstick comedy in plays about strikes and racial injustice. Figures discussed include Louis Lozowick, Jane Heap, Frederick Kiesler, Ralph Steiner, John dos Passos, Margaret Bourke-White and Langston Hughes. Watching the red dawn takes an innovative interdisciplinary approach, considering these developments in architecture, theatre, film, photography and literature, and will be invaluable for students and specialists in these subject areas. It provides a new perspective on American avant-garde culture of the inter-war years. ;

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        The Arts
        April 2016

        Watching the red dawn

        The American avant-garde and the Soviet Union

        by Barnaby Haran

        Watching the red dawn charts the responses of the American avant-garde to the cultural works of its Soviet counterpart, over the period from the formation of the USSR in 1922 to recognition of this new communist nation by the USA in 1933. This time marked great changes in both the USA and the USSR, taking in the machine cult of the 1920s, the radical culture of the Great Depression, the epic narrative of the Soviet Five-Year Plan and the first stirrings of Stalinist terror. With a unique interdisciplinary and transnational approach, this book provides new perspective on the American avant-garde. American artists, writers, and designers looked at the emerging Soviet Union with fascination, as they observed this epochal experiment in communism develop out of the chaos of the Russian Revolution and Civil War. They organised exhibitions of Soviet art and culture, reported on visits to Russia in books and articles and produced works that were inspired by post-revolutionary culture. One of the most important innovations of Soviet culture was to collapse boundaries between disciplines, as part of a general aim to bring art into everyday life. Correspondingly, this book takes an interdisciplinary approach by looking at American avant-garde responses to Soviet culture across several media including architecture, theatre, film, photography and literature. Watching the red dawn considers the putative area of 'American Constructivism' by examining the interconnected ways in which Constructivist works were influential upon American practices. Figures discussed include Louis Lozowick, Jane Heap, Frederick Kiesler, Ralph Steiner, John dos Passos, Margaret Bourke-White, and Langston Hughes. This book will be invaluable to students and specialists in American studies, architecture, art history and visual culture.

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        The Arts
        March 2019

        Dada bodies

        Between battlefield and fairground

        by Elza Adamowicz

        This is the first comprehensive study of bodily images in Dada. Travelling between the international centres of the movement, from Zurich to Berlin, Paris to New York, it examines a diverse range of media, including art, literature, performance, photography and film. Its overall approach is to confront Dada's bodily images not as organic unities but as fictions that reflect on the disjunctive, dehumanised society of war-torn Europe. These fictions occupy an ambivalent space between the battlefield (in their satirical exposure of ideology) and the fairground (in their playful manipulation and joyful renewal of the body). The book features analyses of works by Max Ernst, Francis Picabia, Hannah Höch, Marcel Duchamp and others, and will appeal to scholars and students of European history, cultural history, art and literature.

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        The Arts
        January 2012

        Art, ethnography and the life of objects

        Paris, c.1925–35

        by Julia Kelly, Marsha Meskimmon, Shearer West, Tim Barringer

        In the 1920s and 1930s, anthropology and ethnography provided new and striking ways of rethinking what art could be and the forms which it could take. This book examines the impact of these emergent disciplines on the artistic avant-garde in Paris. The reception by European artists of objects arriving from colonial territories in the first half of the twentieth century is generally understood through the artistic appropriation of the forms of African or Oceanic sculpture. The author reveals how anthropological approaches to this intriguing material began to affect the ways in which artists, theorists, critics and curators thought about three-dimensional objects and their changing status as 'art', 'artefacts' or 'ethnographic evidence'. This book analyses texts, photographs and art works that cross disciplinary boundaries, through case studies including the Dakar to Djibouti expedition of 1931-33, the Trocadéro Ethnographic Museum, and the two art periodicals Documents and Minotaure. Through its interdisciplinary and contextual approach, it provides an important corrective to histories of modern art and the European avant-garde. ;

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        Literature & Literary Studies
        February 2019

        The fictions of Arthur Cravan

        Poetry, boxing and revolution

        by Dafydd Jones

      • Trusted Partner
        Literature & Literary Studies
        February 2019

        The fictions of Arthur Cravan

        Poetry, boxing and revolution

        by Dafydd Jones

      • Trusted Partner
        The Arts
        April 2016

        Watching the red dawn

        The American avant-garde and the Soviet Union

        by Barnaby Haran

        Watching the red dawn charts the responses of the American avant-garde to the cultural works of its Soviet counterpart, over the period from the formation of the USSR in 1922 to recognition of this new communist nation by the USA in 1933. This time marked great changes in both the USA and the USSR, taking in the machine cult of the 1920s, the radical culture of the Great Depression, the epic narrative of the Soviet Five-Year Plan and the first stirrings of Stalinist terror. With a unique interdisciplinary and transnational approach, this book provides new perspective on the American avant-garde. American artists, writers, and designers looked at the emerging Soviet Union with fascination, as they observed this epochal experiment in communism develop out of the chaos of the Russian Revolution and Civil War. They organised exhibitions of Soviet art and culture, reported on visits to Russia in books and articles and produced works that were inspired by post-revolutionary culture. One of the most important innovations of Soviet culture was to collapse boundaries between disciplines, as part of a general aim to bring art into everyday life. Correspondingly, this book takes an interdisciplinary approach by looking at American avant-garde responses to Soviet culture across several media including architecture, theatre, film, photography and literature. Watching the red dawn considers the putative area of 'American Constructivism' by examining the interconnected ways in which Constructivist works were influential upon American practices. Figures discussed include Louis Lozowick, Jane Heap, Frederick Kiesler, Ralph Steiner, John dos Passos, Margaret Bourke-White, and Langston Hughes. This book will be invaluable to students and specialists in American studies, architecture, art history and visual culture.

      • Trusted Partner
        The Arts
        March 2019

        Dada bodies

        Between battlefield and fairground

        by Elza Adamowicz

        This is the first comprehensive study of bodily images in Dada. Travelling between the international centres of the movement, from Zurich to Berlin, Paris to New York, it examines a diverse range of media, including art, literature, performance, photography and film. Its overall approach is to confront Dada's bodily images not as organic unities but as fictions that reflect on the disjunctive, dehumanised society of war-torn Europe. These fictions occupy an ambivalent space between the battlefield (in their satirical exposure of ideology) and the fairground (in their playful manipulation and joyful renewal of the body). The book features analyses of works by Max Ernst, Francis Picabia, Hannah Höch, Marcel Duchamp and others, and will appeal to scholars and students of European history, cultural history, art and literature.

      • Trusted Partner
        Literature & Literary Studies
        February 2019

        The fictions of Arthur Cravan

        Poetry, boxing and revolution

        by Dafydd Jones

        The legendary poet and boxer Arthur Cravan, a fleeting figure on the periphery of early twentieth-century European avant-gardism, is frequently invoked as proto-Dada and Surrealist exemplar. Yet he remains an insubstantial phenomenon, not seen since 1918, lost through historical interstices, clouded in drifting untruths. This study processes philosophical positions into a practical recovery - from nineteenth-century Nietzsche to twentieth-century Deleuze - with thoughts on subjectivity, metaphor, representation and multiplicity. From fresh readings and new approaches - of Cravan's first published work as a manifesto of simulation; of contributors to his Paris review Maintenant as impostures for the Delaunays; and of the conjuring of Cravan in Picabia's elegiac film Entr'acte - The fictions of Arthur Cravan concludes with the absent poet-boxer's eventual casting off into a Surrealist legacy, and his becoming what metaphor is: a means to represent the world.

      • Trusted Partner
        The Arts
        March 2019

        Dada bodies

        Between battlefield and fairground

        by Elza Adamowicz

        This is the first comprehensive study of bodily images in Dada. Travelling between the international centres of the movement, from Zurich to Berlin, Paris to New York, it examines a diverse range of media, including art, literature, performance, photography and film. Its overall approach is to confront Dada's bodily images not as organic unities but as fictions that reflect on the disjunctive, dehumanised society of war-torn Europe. These fictions occupy an ambivalent space between the battlefield (in their satirical exposure of ideology) and the fairground (in their playful manipulation and joyful renewal of the body). The book features analyses of works by Max Ernst, Francis Picabia, Hannah Höch, Marcel Duchamp and others, and will appeal to scholars and students of European history, cultural history, art and literature.

      • Trusted Partner
        The Arts
        November 2022

        Gee Vaucher

        Beyond punk, feminism and the avant-garde

        by Rebecca Binns

        As one of the people who defined punk's protest art in the 1970s and 1980s, Gee Vaucher (b. 1945) deserves to be much better-known. She produced confrontational album covers for the legendary anarchist band Crass and later went on to do the same for Northern indie legends the Charlatans, among others. More recently, her work was recognised the day after Donald Trump's 2016 election victory, when the front page of the Daily Mirror ran her 1989 painting Oh America. Created while she was working as an illustrator for the New York Times, it shows the Statue of Liberty, head in hands. This is the first book to critically assess an extensive range of Vaucher's work. It examines her unique position between avant-garde art movements, counterculture, punk and even contemporary street art. While Vaucher rejects all 'isms', her work offers a unique take on the history of feminist art. The book explores how her life has shaped her output, with particular focus on the anarchist open-house collective at Dial House in Essex, a centre for radical creativity.

      • Trusted Partner
        The Arts
        November 2022

        Gee Vaucher

        Beyond punk, feminism and the avant-garde

        by Rebecca Binns

        As one of the people who defined punk's protest art in the 1970s and 1980s, Gee Vaucher (b. 1945) deserves to be much better-known. She produced confrontational album covers for the legendary anarchist band Crass and later went on to do the same for Northern indie legends the Charlatans, among others. More recently, her work was recognised the day after Donald Trump's 2016 election victory, when the front page of the Daily Mirror ran her 1989 painting Oh America. Created while she was working as an illustrator for the New York Times, it shows the Statue of Liberty, head in hands. This is the first book to critically assess an extensive range of Vaucher's work. It examines her unique position between avant-garde art movements, counterculture, punk and even contemporary street art. While Vaucher rejects all 'isms', her work offers a unique take on the history of feminist art. The book explores how her life has shaped her output, with particular focus on the anarchist open-house collective at Dial House in Essex, a centre for radical creativity.

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        The Arts
        November 2022

        No more giants

        J. M. Richards, modernism and The Architectural Review

        by Jessica Kelly, Sally-Anne Huxtable

        A history of Jim Richards' career as editor of The Architectural Review, this book traces Richards' ideas about anonymity and concepts of public participation in modern architecture. It explores how these ideas responded to the changing contexts of the mid-twentieth century. Richards was a member of the MARS group, he appeared extensively on BBC radio, was architectural correspondent for The Times newspaper and a member of the Architecture Committee for the Festival of Britain. He was also the author of An Introduction to Modern Architecture, which was published in several editions in the UK and America by Penguin publishers. This book explores his career and what it reveals about the history of modern architecture in Britain.

      • Trusted Partner
        The Arts
        November 2022

        No more giants

        J. M. Richards, modernism and The Architectural Review

        by Jessica Kelly, Sally-Anne Huxtable

        A history of Jim Richards' career as editor of The Architectural Review, this book traces Richards' ideas about anonymity and concepts of public participation in modern architecture. It explores how these ideas responded to the changing contexts of the mid-twentieth century. Richards was a member of the MARS group, he appeared extensively on BBC radio, was architectural correspondent for The Times newspaper and a member of the Architecture Committee for the Festival of Britain. He was also the author of An Introduction to Modern Architecture, which was published in several editions in the UK and America by Penguin publishers. This book explores his career and what it reveals about the history of modern architecture in Britain.

      • Trusted Partner
        The Arts
        May 2021

        German Expressionism

        Der Blaue Reiter and its legacies

        by Dorothy Price

        This book presents new research on the histories and legacies of the German Expressionist group Blaue Reiter, the founding force behind modernist abstraction. For the first time Blaue Reiter is subjected to a variety of novel inter-disciplinary perspectives, ranging from a philosophical enquiry into its language and visual perception to analyses of its gender dynamics, its reception at different historical junctures throughout the twentieth century and its legacies for post-colonial aesthetic practices. The volume offers a new perspective on familiar aspects of Expressionism and abstraction, taking seriously the inheritance of modernism for the twenty-first century in ways that will help to recalibrate the field of Expressionist studies for future scholarship. Blaue Reiter still matters, the contributors argue, because the legacies of abstraction are still being debated by artists, writers, philosophers and cultural theorists today.

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