Author

Publication

2015-06-22 - Northwestern University Press

Language

English

Word Count

86,000 words, Guess

Page Count

344 pages

Physical Format

Paperback

Identifiers

  • ISBN-100810131129
  • ISBN-139780810131125
  • Library of Congress Control Number2014046445
  • OCLC Control Number897437437
  • Better World Books9780810131125
and 1 more

Classifications

  • LCCPT405 .R84 2015
  • LCCPT405.R84 2015

Description

Archaeologies of Modernity is the first study to explore the shift from the idealist tradition of literary forms of Bildung - the education of self - to heterogeneous visual forms (from Bild as image) that characterize German modernism and the European avant-garde. Rainer Rumold reviews the work of writers Franz Kafka, Jean/Hans Arp, Walter Benjamin, Carl Einstein, and of artists such as Oskar Kokoschka and Kurt Schwitters, in light of an expressionist and surrealist physiology of aesthetics. In his focus on the entwinement of conceptual modernity with the auto-formations and informes (Bataille) of the archaic, the author resituates the art theorist Einstein's critique of a nonmetaphorical language of primitivism and the imagination vis-à-vis Benjamin's. Archaeologies of Modernity is a major interdisciplinary reconsideration of the modern project. -- from back cover.

Subjects

Other Editions

  • Archaeologies of Modernity: Avant-Garde BildungPaperbackNorthwestern University Press2015-06-22

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