TY - BOOK AU - Kosuch,Carolin TI - Anarchism and the Avant-Garde: a Radical Arts and Politics in Perspective T2 - Avant-Garde Critical Studies SN - 9789004410428 AV - HX833 U1 - 335.83 23 PY - 2020/// CY - Leiden; , Boston PB - Brill | Rodopi KW - Anarchism KW - Anarchists N1 - Front Matter -- Copyright Page -- Illustrations -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction; Carolin Kosuch -- Frictions: Aesthetics or Politics -- The Symbolist Movement: Anarchism and the Avant-Garde in Fin de Siècle France; Richard Shryock -- Egoism, Homosexuality, and Joie de vivre: Jacob Epstein’s Tomb of Oscar Wilde; Mark Antliff -- A Politics of Technique: Fauvism and Anarchist Individualism; Patricia Leighten -- Anti-Art? Dada and Anarchy; Daniela Padularosa -- Fractions: Declining – Pioneering – Redeeming -- Decadent Anarchism, Anarchistic Decadence: Contradictory Cultures, Complementary Politics; David Weir -- ‘We Are Too Far Ahead to be Understood’: Vanguard Creation in Fin de Siècle Anarchism; Carolin Kosuch -- ‘Theocratic Anarchism’? Walter Benjamin and Gershom Scholem in Switzerland: Anarchism, Messianism and the Avant-Garde; Gabriele Guerra -- Focal Points: Art and Education in Local and Transnational Settings -- Syndicalism and Art in France before 1914: Propaganda and Prefiguration; Constance Bantman -- Anarchism, Geography and Painting: Élisée Reclus and Social Art; Federico Ferretti -- Teaching Revolution through Art? Anarchism, the Avant-garde and Education Critically Revisited; Piotr Laskowski -- Back Matter -- Index N2 - Anarchism and the Avant-Garde: Radical Arts and Politics in Perspective contributes to the continuing debate on the encounter of the classical anarchisms (1860s−1940s) and the artistic and literary avant-gardes of the same period, probing its dimensions and limits. Case studies on Dadaism, decadence, fauvism, neo-impressionism, symbolism, and various anarchisms explore the influence anarchism had on the avant-gardes and reflect on avant-garde tendencies within anarchism. This volume also explores the divergence of anarchism and the avant-gardes. It offers a rich examination of politics and arts, and it complements an ongoing discourse with theoretical tools to better assess the aesthetic, social, and political cross-pollination that took place between the avant-gardes and the anarchists in Europe UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004410428 ER -