Anarchist Modernism: Art, Politics, and the First American Avant-Garde
2002; Oxford University Press; Volume: 89; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês
10.2307/3092258
ISSN1945-2314
AutoresGeorge H. Roeder, Allan Antliff,
Tópico(s)Italian Fascism and Post-war Society
ResumoAllan Antliff offers the first “comprehensive examination of anarchism's role in the American art scene during the World War I era,” refuting claims that insurgent American art and politics were connected only tenuously. Anarchism linked such diverse artists as Robert Henri, John Sloan, Alfred Stieglitz, Max Weber, Arthur Dove, Rockwell Kent, and Man Ray, the latter two the subjects of especially illuminating chapters. As Antliff writes, “the project of individual liberation lying at the heart of anarchism…generated a far-flung cultural rebellion encompassing lifestyles, literature, and art as well as politics.” Antliff 's focus brings into clearer view such artists as Adolf Wolff, Elie Nadelman, and John Mow-bray-Clarke. It does the same for Ananda Coomaraswamy, whose “new internationalism” launches Antliff 's critique of other theorists from Karl Marx to Edward Said, and for John Weichsel, founder of the People's Art Guild, whose “cosmism” Antliff finds influential. He thoroughly documents interactions among...
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