Overview
In Theorizing the Avant-Garde Richard Murphy mobilizes theories of the postmodern to challenge our understanding of the avant-garde and assesses its importance for the debates among theorists of postmodernism such as Jameson, Eagleton, Lyotard and Habermas. Murphy reconsiders the classic formulations of the avant-garde and investigates the relationship between art and politics via a discussion of Marcuse, Adorno and Benjamin. Combining close textual readings of a wide range of films as well as works of literature, this interdisciplinary project will appeal to all those interested in twentieth-century modernist movements and postmodernity.
- | Author: Richard Murphy
- | Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- | Publication Date: May 13, 1999
- | Number of Pages: 336 pages
- | Binding: Paperback or Softback
- | ISBN-10: 0521648696
- | ISBN-13: 9780521648691
