Visions of Violence: German Avant-Gardes After Fascism

(Part of the Avant-Garde & Modernism Studies Series)

by Richard Langston

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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:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0810124718

ISBN13:9780810124714

Release Date:December 2007

Publisher:Northwestern University Press

Length:344 Pages

Weight:1.18 lbs.

Dimensions:0.9" x 6.4" x 9.0"

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