Visions of Violence: German Avant-Gardes After Fascism

by Richard Langston

Book Overview

Nazi Germany's book burnings, its campaign against "degenerate art," and its persecution of experimental artists pushed the avant garde to the brink of extinction. How the avant-garde came back, finding a new purpose in the wake of the war, is the subject of Visions of Violence.

An extreme faction of aesthetic modernity intent on bulldozing contemporary life, the avant-garde has regularly employed visions of violence in their push for...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810124661
• ISBN13: 9780810124660
• Release Date: December 2007
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.1"