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Record Nr.

UNINA9910451505303321

Autore

Larsen Neil

Titolo

Modernism and hegemony [[electronic resource] ] : a materialist critique of aesthetic agencies / / Neil Larsen ; foreword by Jaime Concha

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, 1990

ISBN

0-8166-8318-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (175 p.)

Collana

Theory and history of literature ; ; v. 71

Disciplina

111/.85/0904

Soggetti

Modernism (Art)

Ideology

Aesthetics, Modern - 20th century

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliography and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Foreword: From the Modernism of Adorno to the Contemporaneity of Marx; Introduction; 1. From Adorno to Marx: De-Aestheticizing the Modern; 2. Modernism, Manet, and the Maximilian: Executing Negation; 3. Juan Rulfo: Modernism as Cultural Agency; 4. Modernism as Cultura Brasileira: Eating the ""Torn Halves""; Notes; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Modernism and Hegemony was first published in 1990. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. In Modernism and Hegemony, Neil Larsen exposes the underlying political narratives of modernist aesthetic theory and practice. Unlike earlier Marxist critics, Larsen insists that modernist ideology be approached as a ""displaced politics"" and not simply as an aesthetic phenomenon. In this view, modernism is broadly ideological project comprising not only