Communism and the avant-garde in Weimar Germany : a selection of documents
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Communism and the avant-garde in Weimar Germany : a selection of documents
（Historical materialism book series, v. 269）
Brill, c2023
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [460]-474) and index
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Description
How did the revolutionary Left view cultural modernists? Their uneasy relationship is illustrated in this book with quotations ranging from Alexander's 'Dada is merely an impertinence' through Trotsky's 'There cannot be a proletarian culture' to Averbakh's 'Tear off the masks!' and Becher's 'There can only be one kind of genuine art: fighting art.'
Table of Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
1 Introduction: The Avant-Garde and Cultural Innovation
2 The German Setting
3 The Shock of War and Its Aftermath
4 Following the 'Alexander Line'
5 The Revolt of Art becomes a Revolt Against Art
6 Parallel Developments: The Wider European Context
7 The Soviet Cultural Background: The Debates of the 1920s and Their Relevance
8 The New Start of 1925 in Germany
9 New Forms and New Participants: Worker-Correspondents and Worker-Photographers
10 The Impact of the Great Change: The Attempt to Organise and Unify Proletarian Culture
11 Political, Literary, and Artistic Aspects of the Proletarian Culture Movement
Conclusion: The End of Weimar and the Coming of Socialist Realism
Appendix: List of Documents by Chapter
Note on Sources
Bibliography
Index
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