El asalto a la nevera

Reflexiones sobre la cultura del siglo XX

El asalto a la nevera - Peter Wollen - Akal
Publisher name: 
Akal
Year of publication: 
2006
Pages: 
240
Book size:
17x24cm
Weight: 439.4 g
Binding: 
Rustic

Written with great verve and erudition, this book presents an alternative vision of the history of art and culture of the twentieth century, which focuses on the rise and fall of modernity in the heat of social struggles and the transformations experienced by the economy - capitalist world. Beginning with an analysis of the influence of Diaghilev and the Russian Ballets, Wollen argues that the modern movement has always had a hidden and repressed side that cannot be easily dissolved in the master account of modernity. He suggests, through reconsiderations of Matisse's Moroccan paintings and the work of the great fashion designer Paul Poiret, that the history of high art cannot be written independently of the history of acting and design. Wollen then reviews the hopes, fears and expectations of artists and critics fascinated by both the Henry Ford assembly line and the Hollywood dream ...read more

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Book: El asalto a la nevera

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