Regarding the Popular
Modernism, the Avant-Garde and High and Low Culture
Published on 30. November 2011
Book
Mixed media product
XII, 490 pages
978-3-11-027470-7 (ISBN)
Description
Regarding the Popular charts the complex relationship between the avant-gardes and modernisms on the one hand and popular culture on the other. Covering (neo-)avant-gardists and modernists from various European countries, this second volume in the series European Avant-Garde and Modernism Studies explores the nature of so-called "low" culture, dealing with aspects as diverse as the everyday and the folkloric. Regarding the Popular charts the many ways in which the allegedly "high" modernists and avant-gardists looked at and represented the "low". As such, this book will appeal to all those with an interest in the dynamic of modern experimental arts and literatures.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Berlin
Germany
Target group
Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: College Graduate Student
Illustrations
Includes a print version and an ebook
Dimensions
Height: 23 cm
Width: 15.5 cm
ISBN-13
978-3-11-027470-7 (9783110274707)
Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Sascha Bru and Laurence van Nuijs, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium; Benedikt Hjartarson, University of Iceland; Peter Nicholls, New York University, USA; Tanja Ørum, University of Copenhagen, Denmark; Hubert van den Berg, Adam Mickiewicz University, Pozna?, Poland.