Communism and the avant-garde in Weimar Germany : a selection of documents

How did the revolutionary Left view cultural modernists? Their uneasy relationship is illustrated in this book with quotations ranging from Alexander’s ‘Dada is merely an impertinence’ through Trotsky’s ‘There cannot be a proletarian culture’ to Averbakh’s ‘Tear off the masks!’ and Becher’s ‘There c...

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Veröffentlicht in: Historical materialism book series (269)
VerfasserIn: Fowkes, Ben
Ort / Verlag / Datum:Leiden, Boston : Brill, [2023]
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Erscheinungsjahr:2023
Sprache:Englisch
Serie:Historical materialism book series volume 269
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Klassifikation:335 Sozialismus und verwandte Systeme
700 Kunst, Musik und Freizeitgestaltung
300.321
322.420943
Beschreibung:XII, 492 Seiten
Anmerkungen:Literaturverzeichnis: Seite [460]-474
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Zusammenfassung:How did the revolutionary Left view cultural modernists? Their uneasy relationship is illustrated in this book with quotations ranging from Alexander’s ‘Dada is merely an impertinence’ through Trotsky’s ‘There cannot be a proletarian culture’ to Averbakh’s ‘Tear off the masks!’ and Becher’s ‘There can only be one kind of genuine art: fighting art.’ This book covers communist attitudes to the whole field of cultural innovation, from the art of the left abstractionists to the literature of the worker-correspondent movement and the music of Weill and Eisler through to proletarian film, theatre and photography and takes full account of the impact on Weimar left culture of external events, such as the First World War, the ‘Great Change’ in the Soviet Union, and internal German developments such as the failure of revolution after 1918 and the rise of Nazism. Each chapter starts with an introduction that provides a context to the documents and indicates the current state of research
ISBN:9789004515246
AC Nummer:AC16813739
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