Poetry of the Revolution
Martin Puchner
Belletristik / Essays, Feuilleton, Literaturkritik, Interviews
Beschreibung
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.
Central to modern politics and art, the manifesto also measures the geography of modernity. The translations, editions, and adaptations of such texts as the Communist Manifesto and the Futurist Manifesto registered and advanced the spread of revolutionary modernity and of avant-garde movements across Europe and to the Americas. The rapid diffusion of these manifestos was made "possible by networks--such as the successive socialist internationals and international avant-garde movements--that connected Santiago and Zurich, Moscow and New York, London and Mexico City. Poetry of the Revolution thus provides the point of departure for a truly global analysis of modernism and modernity.
Kundenbewertungen
Dramatism, Georges Bataille, Situationist International, Dramaturgy, Postmodern philosophy, Syndicalism, Literary realism, Romanticism, Imperialism, Reformism, The Communist Manifesto, Avant-garde, Post-structuralism, Existentialism, Socialist realism, Theatre of the Absurd, Georges Sorel, Literature and Revolution, Manifestoes of Surrealism, Manifesto of Futurism, Marcel Duchamp, Vorticism, Literary modernism, Ezra Pound, Tristan Tzara, Cultural Revolution, Art and Revolution, Insurrectionary anarchism, Jacques Derrida, Manifesto, Superiority (short story), On Revolution, Manfredo Tafuri, World revolution, Dada, Art manifesto, Surrealism, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Radicalism (historical), Franco-Prussian War, Friedrich Nietzsche, Feminist Manifesto, D. H. Lawrence, Theatrum Mundi, Art movement, Louis Aragon, Social revolution, Chartism, Modernism, Advanced capitalism, Symbolist Manifesto, Virginia Woolf, Marxist literary criticism, Art for art's sake, Politique, Surrealist Manifesto, The Revolution of Everyday Life, The Realist, Haitian Revolution, Resistance movement, Postmodernism, Communist revolution, SCUM Manifesto, World literature, Subaltern (postcolonialism), Literary criticism, Literary theory, Creacionismo, Philosophy of history, Poetry