Total Expansion of the Letter: Avant-Garde Art and Language After Mallarmé

by Trevor Stark

How cubism and Dada radically reimagined the social nature of language, following the utopian poetic vision of St phane Mallarm .

At the outset of the twentieth century, language became a visual medium and a philosophical problem for European avant-garde artists. In Total Expansion of the Letter, art historian Trevor Stark offers a provocative history of this "linguistic turn," centered on the radical doubt about the social function...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262043718
• ISBN13: 9780262043717
• Release Date: June 2020
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 424 Pages
• Weight: 2.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 7.1" x 9.1"