Product Name: The Oxford Critical and Cultural History of Modernist Magazines - 9780199659586 collections
Book Title：The Oxford Critical and Cultural History of Modernist Magazines ISBN：9780199659586

The Oxford Critical and Cultural History of Modernist Magazines

Volume III: Europe 1880 - 1940
Author(s): Peter Brooker, Sascha Bru, Andrew Thacker, Christian Weikop
Format: Multiple copy pack
Publisher: Oxford University Press, United Kingdom
Imprint: Oxford University Press
ISBN-13: 9780199659586, 978-0199659586

Synopsis

The third of three volumes devoted to the cultural history of the modernist magazine in Britain, North America, and Europe, this collection contains fifty-six original essays on the role of little magazines and independent periodicals in Europe in the period [tel]. It demonstrates how these publications were instrumental in founding and advancing developments in European modernism and the avant-garde.

Expert discussion of approaching 300 magazines, accompanied by an illuminating variety of cover images, from France, Italy, Germany, Spain and Portugal, Scandinavia, Central and Eastern Europe will significantly extend and strengthen the understanding of modernism and modernity. The chapters are organised into six main sections with contextual introductions specific to national, regional histories, and magazine cultures. Introductions and chapters combine to elucidate the part played by
magazines in the broader formations associated with Symbolism, Expressionism, Futurism, Dada, Surrealism, and Constructivism in a period of fundamental social and geo-political change. Individual essays, situated in relation to metropolitan centres bring focussed attention to a range of celebrated and less
well-known magazines, including Le Chat Noir, La Revue blanche, Le Festin dEsope, La Nouvelle Revue Francaise, La Revolution Surrealiste, Documents,De Stijl, Ultra, Lacerba, Energie Nouve, Klingen, Exlex, flamman, Der Blaue Reiter, Der Sturm, Der Dada, Ver Sacrum, Cabaret Voltaire, 391, ReD,
Zenit, Ma, Contemporanul, Formisci collections, Zdroj, Lef ,and Novy Lef .

The magazines disclose a world where the material constraints of costs, internal rivalries, and anxieties over censorship ran alongside the excitement of new work, collaboration on a new manifesto and the birth of a new movement. This collection therefore confirms the value of magazine culture to the expanding field of modernist studies, providing a rich and hitherto under-examined resource which helps bring to life the dynamics out of which the modernist avant-garde evolved.

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