Preservation, Radicalism, and the Avant-Garde Canon

R. Ferreboeuf

ISBN 10: 1137479302 / ISBN 13: 9781137479303

Published by Palgrave Macmillan US, Palgrave Macmillan US Jan 2016, 2016

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Neuware -Combining a range of content with self-reflexive examination by scholars and practitioners, this edited volume interrogates the contemporary significance of the avant-garde. Rather than focusing on a particular region, period, or movement, the contributors bring together case studies to examine what constitutes the avant-garde canon.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 292 pp. Englisch.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Preservation, Radicalism, and the Avant-Garde Canon
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US, Palgrave Macmillan US Jan 2016
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1137479302
• ISBN 13: 9781137479303
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 222W x 145H x 21D millimeters 222 millimeters width by 145 millimeters height by 21 millimeters depth
• Weight: 504 grams

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Synopsis

Combining a range of content with self-reflexive examination by scholars and practitioners, this edited volume interrogates the contemporary significance of the avant-garde. Rather than focusing on a particular region, period, or movement, the contributors bring together case studies to examine what constitutes the avant-garde canon.

About the Author

Rebecca Ferreboeuf is an honorary research fellow at Durham University, UK. Her research focuses on the French and francophone avant-gardes. She has published on women writers and artists of the avant-gardes; she is also the managing editor of Cahiers Laure, a journal dedicated to French writer, Colette Peignot.

Fiona Noble holds a PhD in Hispanic Studies and Film and Visual Culture from the University of Aberdeen, UK. She has published on depictions of the body in Salvador Dalí, on cinematic representations of children in post-Franco Spain, and on intercultural lesbian relationships in contemporary Spanish cinema.

Tara Plunkett is a Lecturer in Spanish at University College Dublin. Her research focuses on Spanish and Latin American artists' use of the Surrealist aesthetic in works of self-fashioning. In May 2014, she curated the exhibition Out of the Ordinary: Contemporary Visions of the Avant-Garde, which was held at the Naughton Gallery, Queen's University Belfast, Ireland.