Carolin Kosuch (a cura di), Anarchism and the Avant-Garde. Radical Arts and Politics in Perspective, Leiden-Boston: Brill 2020 (Avant-Garde Critical Studies 38), ISBN: 978-90-04-41041-1. Questo volume collettaneo è nato da un convegno che si è svolto presso il DHI Roma dal 7 al 9 settembre 2016 con il sostegno della Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. Abstract: The volume contributes to the continuing debate on the encounter of the classical anarchisms (1860s−1940s) and the artistic and literary avant-gardes of the same period, probing its dimensions and limits. Case studies on Dadaism, decadence, fauvism, neo-impressionism, symbolism, and various anarchisms explore the influence anarchism had on the avant-gardes and reflect on avant-garde tendencies within anarchism. This volume also explores the divergence of anarchism and the avant-gardes. It offers a rich examination of politics and arts, and it complements an ongoing discourse with theoretical tools to better assess the aesthetic, social, and political cross-pollination that took place between the avant-gardes and the anarchists in Europe. The idea for this volume was born during a three-days international workshop held at the German Historical Institute in Rome, funded by the German Research Council.
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