The Manchester College

Regarding the popular : modernism, the avant-garde, and high and low culture /

Regarding the popular : modernism, the avant-garde, and high and low culture / Modernism, the avant-garde, and high and low culture. edited by Sascha Bru [and others] ; with the editorial assistance of Leslie A. Barnes, Gareth Farmer and Matthias Somers. - Berlin : Boston, Massachusetts. De Gruyter, ©2012 ; - 1 online resource (xii, 487 pages) : illustrations. - European avant-garde and modernism studies = Etudes sur l'avant-garde et le modernisme en Europe = Studien zur europäischen Avantgarde und Moderne . - European avant-garde and modernism studies .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

About the Series -- Surla collection -- Zur Buchreihe; Introduction; Given the Popular; Terms and Canons; "The Madness of the Unexpected". Duchamp's Readymades and the Survival of "High" Art; Instrument of Inspiration High/Low Illusions in British Experimental Music and After; English Rebels in Art Circles: The New Age in its Elitist and Populist Dimension; Kinaesthetic Modernism? Rhythms, Bodies and Motion across the Great Divide; Art, Nation and Political Discourse; Culture en quête de repères; Folklore; Dada, Carnival and RevolutionSpuren der Volksdichtung in der ungarischen AvantgardeliteraturMusical Boxes: The Impersonal Avant-Garde Poem, Everyday Language and Popular Song; What Did They Need Jazz For? Jazz Music in Polish Interwar Poetry; Der junge Borges und die ultraistische Avantgarde Das Populäre als Taktik; The Theatre of Ramón del Valle-Inclán: Between Modernism and the Popular Imagination; The Everyday; Sitting Pretty: Modernism and the Municipal Chair in the Photographs o ... Regarding the Popular charts the complex relationship between the avant-gardes and modernisms on the one hand and popular culture on the other. Covering (neo- )avant-gardists and modernists from various European countries, this second volume in the series European Avant-Garde and Modernism Studies explores the nature of so-called "low" culture, dealing with aspects as diverse as the everyday and the folkloric. Regarding the Popular charts the many ways in which the allegedly "high" modernists and avant-gardists looked at and represented the "low". As such, this book will appeal to all those wit.


Contributions in English, French and German.

9783110274691

10.1515/978311027469


Modernism (Art)
Arts, Modern--20th century.
Art and popular culture
ART--Performance
ART--Reference
Art and popular culture
Arts, Modern
Modernism (Art)