![]() | Poetry of the Revolution: Marx, Manifestos, and the Avant-Gardes Subjects: Avant-garde (Aesthetics) -- History -- 20th century; Arts Modern -- 20th century; Arts -- Political aspects; Revolutionary literature -- History and criticism; Marx Karl 1818–1883. Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei; Poetry of the Revolution tells the story of political and artistic upheavals through the manifestos of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Ranging from the Communist Manifesto to the manifestos of the 1960s and beyond, it highlights the varied alliances and rivalries between socialism and repeated waves of avant-garde art. Martin Puchner argues that the manifesto--what Marx called the "poetry" of the revolution--was the genre through which modern culture articulated its revolutionary ambitions and desires. When it intruded into the sphere of art, the manifesto created an art in its own image: shrill and aggressive, political and polemical. The result was "manifesto art"--combinations of manifesto and art that fundamentally transformed the artistic landscape of the twentieth century. Martin Puchner , is Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University and author of Stage Fright: Modernism, Anti-Theatricality, and Drama . He is coeditor of Against Theatre: Creative Destructions on the Modernist Stage (2006), and The Norton Anthology of Drama (forthcoming). |
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