Poetry of the Revolution: Marx, Manifestos, and the Avant-gardesPoetry 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. |
Contents
The Formation of a Genre | 11 |
Marxian Speech Acts | 23 |
The History of the Communist Manifesto | 33 |
The Geography of the Communist Manifesto | 47 |
Russian Futurism and the Soviet State | 94 |
The Rear Guard of British Modernism | 107 |
8 | 135 |
Huidobros Creation of a Latin American Vanguard | 166 |
Artauds Manifesto Theater | 196 |
12 | 211 |
13 | 217 |
Long Live the AvantGarde | 241 |
EPILOGUE | 258 |
NOTES | 263 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY | 295 |
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Poetry of the Revolution: Marx, Manifestos, and the Avant-gardes Martin Puchner Limited preview - 2006 |
Poetry of the Revolution: Marx, Manifestos, and the Avant-gardes Martin Puchner No preview available - 2006 |