1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910827571703321

Titolo

Hans Richter : activism, modernism, and the avant-garde / / edited by Stephen C. Foster

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, MA, : MIT Press, c1998

ISBN

1-282-09819-5

9786612098192

0-262-27298-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (342 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

FosterStephen C

Disciplina

700/.92

Soggetti

Dramatists

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Published in collaboration with the University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [280]-314) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- CONTENTS -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Hans Richter: Prophet of Modernism -- Abstraction, Autonomy, and Contradiction in the Politicization of the Art of Hans Richter -- Hans Richter, Munich Dada, and the Munich Republic of Workers' Councils -- Hans Richter: Constructivist Filmmaker -- Hans Richter and the Constructivist International -- Richter's Films and the Role of the Radical Artist, 1927-1941 -- Hans Richter in America: Traditional Avant-Garde Values/Shifting Sociopolitical Realities -- Appendix -- Chronology -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index of Names.

Sommario/riassunto

New critical perspectives on Hans Richter, the artist and political activist who played a major role in the shaping of the twentieth-century avant-garde.