Embattled Avant-Gardes: Modernism's Resistance to Commodity Culture in Europe

Offers an exploration of the avant-garde practices through which the modernist generations after 1900 resisted the rise of commodity culture as a threat to authentic cultural expression. This book charts the rise and fall of modernist aspirations in movements and individuals as diverse as Ruskin, Marinetti, Kandinsky, Bauhaus, and Purism.

• | By (Author): Walter L. Adamson
• | Publisher: University of California Press
• | Publication Date: Aug 17, 2009
• | Country of Publication: United States
• | Number of Pages: 448 pages
• | Language: Unknown
• | Binding: Paperback|Softback
• | ISBN-10: 0520261534
• | ISBN-13: 9780520261532