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Focusing on the period from the years just prior to
World War I to the onset of World War II, contributors to
this volume investigate the nexus of art, avant-garde
thought, and politics as it appears in (explicitly or
implicitly) partisan journals. The art and journals in
question frequently helped to politicize the artistic
avant-garde in Italy, Russia, Hungary, Germany, Spain,
the United States, Mexico, and France and contributed to
the international currents of communism and fascism. In
this beautifully illustrated edition, which includes 101
black-and-white photographs and 8 color plates, these
essayists--all distinguished art historians and
scholars--explore the subtle nuances of this
political-artistic rhetoric. CONTENTS 1. Lacerba: Interventionist Art and Politics in Pre-World War I Italy, Christine Poggi 2. The Press for a New Art in Russia, 1917-1921, Christina Lodder 3. From Avant-Garde to "Proletkult" in Hungarian Émigré Politico-Cultural Journals, 1922-1924, Oliver A. I. Botar 4. Picture as Weapon in the German Mass Media, 1914-1930, Sherwin Simmons 5. Political Practice and the Arts in Spain, 1927-1936, Jordana Mendelson with Estrella de Diego 6. Art on the Left in the United States, 1918-1937, Virginia Hagelstein Marquardt 7. Graphics of the Mexican Left, 1924-1938, Alicia Azuela 8. News Magazines and the Politicization of Architecture in France during the 1930s, Isabelle Gournay Virginia Hagelstein Marquardt, associate professor of art history at Marist College, is coeditor of The Avant-Garde Frontier: Russia Meets the West, 1910-1930 (UPF, 1992) and editor of Survivor from a Dead Age: The Memoirs of Louis Lozowick (1997).
1997. 336 pp. 6 X 9. ISBN 0-8130-1535-9
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"An invaluable source of information on the
textual and visual rhetoric of nationalisms in the early
twentieth century. . . . Its attempt to illuminate the
intersection between the mass media and the politics of
representation is successful and rich. . . . This book
will be of the highest interest to scholars of modernism,
nationalism, and propaganda studies . . . and to
historians of the press, typography, radical movements,
and literature." --Patricia G. Berman, Jewett Arts
Center, Wellesley College "Provides a uniquely focused contribution to our knowledge of visual expression between the world wars. The little-studied symbiosis of an avant-garde politicization of the mass media emerges here as a wonderful paradox. That is the broader value of the collection, but each individual essay presents a focused study of materials largely unknown to us. . . . Will prove essential reading for political historians [as well as] journalism and mass media scholars."--John F. Moffitt, New Mexico State University
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