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BUY FROM PUBLISHER	Anarchist Modernism: Art, Politics, and the First American Avant-Garde by Allan Antliff University of Chicago Press, 2001 Paper: 978-0-226-02104-1 \| Cloth: 978-0-226-02103-4 Library of Congress Classification NX650.A52A58 2001 Dewey Decimal Classification 709.7309041 ABOUT THIS BOOK \| AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY \| REVIEWS \| TOC \| REQUEST ACCESSIBLE FILE ABOUT THIS BOOK The relationship of the anarchist movement to American art during the World War I era is most often described as a "tenuous affinity" between two distinct spheres: political and artistic. In Anarchist Modernism—the first in-depth exploration of the role of anarchism in the formation of early American modernism—Allan Antliff reveals that modernists participated in a wide-ranging movement that encompassed lifestyles, literature, and art, as well as politics. Drawing on a wealth of hitherto unknown information, including interviews and reproductions of lost works, he examines anarchism's influence on a telling cross-section of artists such as Robert Henri, Elie Nadelman, Man Ray, and Rockwell Kent. He also traces the interactions between cultural figures and thinkers including Emma Goldman, Alfred Stieglitz, Ezra Pound, and Ananda Coomaraswamy. By situating American art's evolution in the progressive politics of the time, Antliff offers a richly illustrated chronicle of the anarchist movement and also revives the creative agency of those who shaped and implemented modernism for radical ends. AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY Allan Antliff is Canada Research Chair in art history at the University of Victoria, Canada. REVIEWS “The sheer scale of the materials that Antliff has uncovered is impressive, and powerfully reinforces his compelling recovery of ‘the creative agency of those who invented, shaped, and implemented modernism for radical ends.’ . . . Anarchist Modernism is a major scholarly achievement.” — John Moore, Anarchist Studies “Anarchist Modernism transforms understanding of early twentieth-century American art . . . [Antliff] creates a fascinating intellectual history of the anarchist movement that deserves to be read outside of the discipline of art history.” — Jody Blake, Modernism & Modernity TABLE OF CONTENTS List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1 Modernists against the Academy, 1908-12 2 The Armory Show Debate 3 Cosmism or Amorphism 4 Man Ray's Path to Dada 5 Hippolyte Havel and the Artists of Revolt 6 A New Internationalism 7 Nietzschean Matrix 8 Anarchist Unanimism 9 The Denouement of Anarchist Modernism Conclusion Notes Select Bibliography Index REQUEST ACCESSIBLE FILE If you are a student who has a disability that prevents you from using this book in printed form, BiblioVault may be able to supply you with an electronic file for alternative access. Please have the disability coordinator at your school fill out this form. It can take 2-3 weeks for requests to be filled. See other books on: Anarchism \| Art \| Arts, American \| Avant-garde (Aesthetics) \| Politics See other titles from University of Chicago Press

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REVIEWS

“The sheer scale of the materials that Antliff has uncovered is impressive, and powerfully reinforces his compelling recovery of ‘the creative agency of those who invented, shaped, and implemented modernism for radical ends.’ . . . Anarchist Modernism is a major scholarly achievement.”

— John Moore, Anarchist Studies

“Anarchist Modernism transforms understanding of early twentieth-century American art . . . [Antliff] creates a fascinating intellectual history of the anarchist movement that deserves to be read outside of the discipline of art history.”

— Jody Blake, Modernism & Modernity