Sculptors against the state : anarchism and the Anglo-European avant-garde

Sculptors against the state : anarchism and the Anglo-European avant-garde / Mark Antliff.

Author/creator	Antliff, Mark, 1957- author.
Format	Book and Print
Publication Info	University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2021]
Copyright Notice	©2021
Description	xii, 256 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.
Subject(s)	Gaudier-Brzeska, Henri, 1891-1915--Criticism and interpretation. Epstein, Jacob, 1880-1959--Criticism and interpretation. Boccioni, Umberto, 1882-1916--Criticism and interpretation. Sculpture, European--20th century. Avant-garde (Aesthetics)--Europe --History --20th century. Anarchism and art--Europe --History --20th century.

Series	Refiguring modernism Refiguring modernism. ^A595297
Contents	Introduction : anarchism then and now -- "Life's joy" : censorship, homosexuality, and Jacob Epstein's Tomb of Oscar Wilde -- Sculpting an antidemocratic insurrection : Umberto Boccioni's Unique forms of continuity in space -- Henri Gaudier-Brzeska's La guerre sociale : satire, Apaches, and antimilitarism -- Into the vortex : Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, Ezra Pound, and sculptural nominalism -- Conclusion : anarchist aesthetics and ideology; shaping states of mind.
Abstract	"Considers the relation of anarchist ideology to avant-garde sculpture through an examination of iconic artists and writers whose work transformed European modernism: Jacob Epstein, Oscar Wilde, Umberto Boccioni, F. T. Marinetti, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, and Ezra Pound"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (pages 232-247) and index.
Genre/form	Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Genre/form	History.
LCCN	2021017326
ISBN	9780271089454 (hardback)
ISBN	0271089458 (hardback)

Library	Location	Call Number	Status	Item Actions
Joyner	General Stacks	NB458 .A58 2021	✔ Available	Place Hold