The Rise of the Avant-Gardes 1848-1918 : A Transnational History /
Why did modern painting flourish in Paris, Vienna, or Brussels but stall in London or Madrid? What propelled some avant-gardes to global fame while others vanished? This book takes you inside modern art's explosive rise between 1848 and 1918, revealing how artists navigated nationalism, markets...
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Language: English
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2026.
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Avant-Garde Critical Studies ;
48.
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Call Number: N5305
- Contents
- Preface
- List of Figures and Tables
- Introduction: What Is the Avant-Garde?
- 1 A Sociological Definition
- 2 An Anachronism?
- 3 The Avant-Garde: More Modern than the Moderns?
- 4 A Difficult Autonomy
- 5 On the Ideology of Avant-Gardism
- 6 What about Paris? The Geopolitics of the Avant-Garde
- Part 1 Moderns versus Ancients? From Opposition to Recognition, 1848-1889
- 1 The Crisis in the French Art System
- 1 When Was the Avant-Garde Born?
- 2 An Unpopular Academic System
- 3 The Realist Avant-Garde Takes on the National
- 4 How to Survive and Stay Independent? The Solutions of the 1863 Generation
- 2 Impressionism between Intransigence and Adaptation
- 1 A Loose Grouping (1874-1879)
- 2 Was There an Impressionist "Style"?
- 3 "Impressionism? It's Putting on Gloves ..."
- 3 Towards an International Market (1885-1889)
- 1 The Art Dealers' Takeover of Impressionism
- 2 Independent Art and Its New Status
- 3 New Collectors for Impressionist Painting
- 4 Conclusion: Achievement or Disappointment? Cézanne and the Contradictions of Impressionism
- Part 2 The Era of "Secessions"
- 4 ONE Europe, ONE Modern Art? The Artistic Elite, 1885-1905
- 1 The Avant-Garde as Success: Brussels-Paris-London
- 2 The Europe of the Secessions: Internationalism and Nationalism
- 3 Secessionism, a System Closed to Innovation
- 5 Outdoing Each Other (1885-1895)
- 1 Parisian Impressionism's Difficult Succession
- 2 New Alliances
- 3 The Artist as Scapegoat
- 6 The Modernist Consolidation of the Fin de Siècle
- 1 Symbolism: Questioning or Renewing the Avant-Garde?
- 2 European Recognition of Symbolism and Its Effect on the Avant-Garde
- 3 The Hope of the Applied Arts
- 4 1900: Modernism in National Rivalries
- Part 3 The Crisis of European Modernism, 1903-1909
- 7 From Bottleneck to Explosion
- 1 The New Generation's Malaise
- 2 Forms of the Crisis in Paris: Fauvism
- 3 The Secession Crisis in Germany and the Birth of Expressionism
- 8 The Renewal of the Parisian Avant-Garde Scene
- 1 A New Logic of Innovation
- 2 The Parisian Avant-Garde, an Ebullient Micro-Society
- Part 4 The International Art War, 1905-1914
- Introduction to Part 4
- 9 The Nationalist Danger
- 1 Double-Edged Media Coverage
- 2 The Parisian Avant-Garde's Nationalist Slide
- 10 A New Geopolitics of the Avant-Garde
- 1 With or without Paris? Challenging Modern Internationalism in Europe
- 2 The View from Central Europe: a Disconnected Periphery?
- 3 Germany, a New Home for the International Avant-Gardists?
- 11 Double-Edged Internationalization
- 1 Parisian Merchants Choose the International
- 2 Those Promoting This Internationalization
- 3 The War of the New European Avant-Gardes
- Part 5 Between Fire and Order: the Trial of the Great War
- Introduction to Part 5
- 12 The Parisian Avant-Garde War
- 1 Contrition
- 2 The Sacred Union of the Modern
- 3 Artistic Recovery and Its Limits
- 13 The German Avant-Garde in Revolt
- 1 At the Heart of the War
- 2 Youth in Crisis
- 3 Art in Revolution
- 4 A Reconciliation of Avant-Garde Visual Art and Politics?
- 14 Diasporas of Despair
- 1 Acedia
- 2 New York: Recess or Refoundation?
- 3 The Big Shift: Dada, Zurich, 1916-1918
- Epilogue: on the Threshold of a New History?
- Bibliography
- Index.