Radical Art and the Formation of the Avant-Garde

by David Cottington

Over the past fifty years, the term "avant-garde" has come to shape discussions of European culture and modernity, ubiquitously taken for granted but rarely defined. This ground-breaking book develops an original and searching methodology that fundamentally reconfigures the social, cultural, and visual context of the emergence of the artistic avant-garde in Paris and London before 1915, bringing the material history of its formation into clearer and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300166737
• ISBN13: 9780300166736
• Release Date: April 2022
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.83 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.5" x 9.5"