List of Illustrations vii

 Acknowledgments xv

Introduction. Aleš Erjavec 1

1. Politics as the Art of the Impossible: The Heteronomy of Italian Futurist Art-Action / Sascha Bru 19

2. 5 X 5 = 25? The Science of Constructivism / John E. Bowlt 42

3. Convulsive Beauty: Surrealism as Aesthetic Revolution / Raymond Spiteri 80

4. Aesthetic Avant-Gardes and Revolutionary Movements from Modern Latin America / David Craven 113

5. All along the Watchtower: Aesthetic Revolution in the United States during the 1960s / Tyrus Miller 145

6. From Unitary Urbanism to the Society of the Spectacle: The Situationist Aesthetic Revolution / Raymond Spiteri 178

7. NSK: Cricial Phenomenology of the State / Miško Šuvakovic 215

Conclusion. Avant-Gardes, Revolutions, and Aesthetics / Aleš Erjavec 255

Bibliography 287

Contributors 311

Index 313

John E. Bowlt

Sascha Bru

Tyrus Miller

Raymond Spiteri

Misko Suvakovic

"By examining a range of aesthetic avant-garde developments, Erjavec and his contributing authors both inform and raise important questions pertaining to the role of aesthetic avant-garde projects." — Curtis L. Carter, Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism

"By examining a range of aesthetic avant-garde developments, Erjavec and his contributing authors both inform and raise important questions pertaining to the role of aesthetic avant-garde projects." —Curtis L. Carter, Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism

"At the crossroads of the aestheticization of politics and the politicization of art, a collision occurred that released the energy fueling the various avant-gardes of the 20th century. However unfulfilled their quest to revolutionize both art and life may now seem, the shock waves it set off still reverberate in our own time. Focusing on both familiar and unfamiliar avant-garde movements around the world, the provocative texts assembled by Aleš Erjavec in this scintillating collection demonstrate that they may still trigger new explosions in the years to come." — Martin Jay, coeditor of, Empires of Vision: A Reader

"This is a quite remarkable collection that profiles the art/politics relationship as it was concretely negotiated at key moments throughout the twentieth century. No other study enables us to look so closely to see just what the art/politics relation amounted to—or, more exactly, what was the real relationship between artistic practice and revolutionary social transformation." — Terry Smith, author of, Antinomies of Art and Culture: Modernity, Postmodernity, Contemporaneity

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