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OverviewHow did the revolutionary Left view cultural modernists? Their uneasy relationship is illustrated in this book with quotations ranging from Alexander's 'Dada is merely an impertinence' through Trotsky's 'There cannot be a proletarian culture' to Averbakh's 'Tear off the masks!' and Becher's 'There can only be one kind of genuine art: fighting art' This book covers communist attitudes to the whole field of cultural innovation, from the art of the left abstractionists to the literature of the worker-correspondent movement and the music of Weill and Eisler, through to proletarian film, theatre and photography. Historian Ben Fowkes takes full account of the impact on Weimar left culture of external events, such as the First World War, the 'Great Change' in the Soviet Union, and internal German developments-including the failure of revolution after 1918 and the rise of Nazism. Each chapter starts with an introduction that provides context for the relevant documents and explores the current state of research. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Ben FowkesPublisher: Haymarket Books Imprint: Haymarket Books ISBN: 9798888900017Pages: 504 Publication Date: 17 November 2023 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Temporarily unavailable  The supplier advises that this item is temporarily unavailable. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out to you. Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationBen Fowkes, B.A. (Oxon.) (1961), Ph.D. (1966), London School of Economics, taught history at the universities of Sheffield and North London. He has published books on Communism in Germany and the communist era in Eastern Europe and Russia. He has translated several volumes of the work of Karl Marx, including The Economic Manuscript of 1863-1865, published by Brill. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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