Primitive Renaissance

Rethinking German Expressionism

Szerző: David Pan

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Kötés: Kemény kötésű

Kiadó: University of Nebraska Press

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"Primitive Renaissance" argues that the radicality of early twentieth-century movements such as expr...

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David Pan

Nyelv

Angol

Kötés

Könyv - Kemény kötésű

Kiadva

2001

oldal

239

EAN

9780803237278

Enbook ID

04923144

Kiadó

University of Nebraska Press

Súly

454

Méretek

135 x 135 x 25

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"Primitive Renaissance" argues that the radicality of early twentieth-century movements such as expressionism was not their modernism but rather their primitivism. At the heart of the work of Friedrich Nietzsche, Pablo Picasso, Wassily Kandinsky, Carl Einstein, and others was a critique of modernity through a primitivist aesthetic that privileged art over science and reason. Although drawing on non-European cultural traditions, the new aesthetic was not merely exoticism, an artistic phase or fad that opened a window on the cultural other. It was conceived less as a simple negation of the trappings of civilization than as a more pervasive and structured critique of how life is organized in the modern world. Based on a traditionalist rather than Enlightenment view of the function of art in society, primitivism contended that art provides the core mythic structure for human consciousness. On a broader level, by negating modernity, primitivism also challenged its inevitability. Modernity became one of a number of equally plausible cultural strategies for organizing life in the contemporary world. Ranging insightfully across the visual arts, literature, and philosophy, "Primitive Renaissance" offers a provocative reassessment of the significance of primitivism and its contribution to the intellectual, artistic, and cultural climate of Europe in the early twentieth century. David Pan is an acting assistant professor of German at Stanford University.

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