Aleš Erjavec is Research Professor in the Institute of Philosophy of the Scientific Research Center of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts. He is the author of Postmodernism, Postsocialism and Beyond, and the editor of Postmodernism and the Postsocialist Condition: Politicized Art under Late Socialism.
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
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