Ebook: Modernism at the barricades: aesthetics, politics, Utopia

The modernist impulse: subjectivity, resistance, freedom -- Modernism in context: notes for a political aesthetic -- Experiencing modernism: a short history of expressionist painting -- The modernist spirit: on the correspondence between Arnold Schoenberg and Wassily Kandinsky -- Modernism in motion: F.T. Marinetti and Italian futurism -- Ecstatic modernism: the paintings of Emil Nolde -- Modernism, surrealism, and the political imaginary -- Modernism changes the world: the Russian avant-garde and the revolution -- Modernists in power: the literati and the Bavarian revolution -- Exhibiting modernism: Paris and Berlin, 1900-1933 -- The modernist adventure: political reflections on a cultural legacy.;Stephen Eric Bronner revisits the groundbreaking innovations of the modernist project and its shaping of the radical imagination, as well as its creation of a new political vision for the twentieth century. Reading the artistic and intellectual achievements of the movement's leading figures against larger social, political, and cultural trends, Bronner follows the rise of a flawed yet salient effort at liberation and its confrontation with modernity. Modernism at the Barricades features chapters on expressionism, futurism, surrealism, and revolutionary art and includes special stud.