The Avant Garde by David Cottington

The Avant Garde by David Cottington

For over a hundred years 'the avant-garde' has been the most influential concept in modern art; its impact on the history of modern culture has been profound. In this Very Short Introduction, David Cottington explores why the avant-garde carries so much authority, and places it within the context of western modernity and capitalist culture.

Cottington's book is both a brisk history of the idea of the avant-garde and a precise set of arguments about what constitutes avant-garde.. To navigate the waters ahead we will require cultural historians like Cottington more than Amazon reviews, Facebook likes and fleeting tweets. * The Scotsman *

David Cottington is Emeritus Professor of Art History at Kingston University London. He has published widely on the Cubist movement and the artistic avant-gardes of the early twentieth century, including Cubism in the Shadow of War: The Avant-Garde and Politics in Paris 1905-1914 (Yale UP, 1998), and Cubism and its Histories (Manchester University Press, 2004). His Modern Art: A Very Short Introduction was published in 2005. The Avant-Garde: A Very Short Introduction of 2013 was followed by his latest book, Radical Art and the Formation of the Avant-Garde, a history and theorisation of the avant-gardes early phases, published by Yale University Press in March 2022.

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ISBN 13	9780199582730
ISBN 10	0199582734
Title	The Avant Garde
Author	David Cottington
Series	Very Short Introductions
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Oxford University Press
Year published	2013-01-31
Number of pages	160
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