Antliff Avant-Garde Fascism

The Mobilization of Myth, Art, and Culture in France, 1909–1939
1. Auflage 2007
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9047-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 372 Seiten

An investigation of the central role that theories of the visual arts and creativity played in the development of fascism in France between 1909 and 1939.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Antliff, Mark

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: 20./21. Jahrhundert

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations ix

Acknowledgments xiii

Introduction 1

Chapter 1. Fascism, Modernism, and Modernity 17

Chapter 2. The Jew as Anti-Artist: Georges Sorel and the Aesthetics of the Anti-Enlightenment 63

Chapter 3. La Cite Francaise: Georges Valois, Le Corbusier, and Fascist Theories of Urbanism 111

Chapter 4. Machine Primitives: Philippe Lamour and the Fascist Cult of Youth 155

Chapter 5. Classical Violence: Thierry Maulnier and the Legacy of the Cercle Proudhon 203

Conclusion 247

Notes 255

Bibliography 323

Index 345

Über Autor(innen)

Mark Antliff is Professor of Art, Art History, and Visual Studies at Duke University. He is the author of Inventing Bergson: Cultural Politics and the Parisian Avant-Garde; a coauthor of Cubism and Culture; and a coeditor of A Cubism Reader: Documents and Criticism, 1906–1914 and Fascist Visions: Art and Ideology in France and Italy.