Total Expansion of the Letter
Avant-Garde Art and Language After Mallarmé
- Hardcover
440 pages
- Release Date
2 June 2020
Summary
How cubism and Dada radically reimagined the social nature of language, following the utopian poetic vision of Stephane Mallarme.At the outset of the twentieth century, language became a visual medium and a philosophical problem for European avant-garde artists. In Total Expansion of the Letter, art historian Trevor Stark offers a provocative history of this “linguistic turn,” centered on the radical doubt about the social function of language that defined the avant-garde movements. Major cub…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262043717 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0262043718 |
| Author: | Trevor Stark |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 440 |
| Release Date: | 2 June 2020 |
| Weight: | 666g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 178mm x 29mm |
| Series: | October Books |
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Critics Review
“Stark himself, however, proves to be a lucid communicator, effectively articulating fresh perspectives on each of these already exhaustively discussed topics, writing revealingly on poetry, dance, theatre, roulette, and visual art. This is an important contribution to modernist studies.“—Christopher Green, Burlington Magazine
“Total Expansion of the Letter does an immense service to studies of the European avant-garde from Picasso to Duchamp. It brings fresh, beautifully nuanced, and important perspectives even to this well-trodden ground, while maintaining unstinting attention to salient detail. It is that most pleasing of studies: rooted both in fruitful archival research and propelled by sustained and theoretically sophisticated arguments that—it is to be hoped—will urge new generations of scholars toward rigorous engagement with the avant-garde from which we still have so much to learn, perhaps now more than ever.”—CAA Reviews
About The Author
Trevor Stark
Trevor Stark is Assistant Professor of Art History in the Department of Art at the University of Calgary.
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