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You've filled out a million of them, but have you ever really considered the questionnaire? Lori Cole has-and in Surveying the Avant-Garde she seats it beside the manifesto as a core genre of modernist self-portraiture and self-promotion. The result is a fascinating new take on a range of modernist print communities. What Cole has rejoined-the manifesto and the questionnaire, the bullhorn of avant-gardes and their fissured mirror-let no one put asunder. -Paul K. Saint-Amour, author of The Copywrights: Intellectual Property and the Literary Imagination An outstanding contribution to modernist studies in general, to discussions on global modernism in particular, and to periodical studies. The questionnaire in modernist magazines is brought forth as a genre of paramount importance for the self-perception of modernism, as it shaped public discussions about the relevance, scope, and limitations of the modernist project. Lori Cole skillfully brings together magazines across three continents and re-creates a fascinating snapshot of the connections, networks, and circulation of ideas that were vital for the writers and artists of the period. -Effie Rentzou, author of Litterature malgre elle: Le surrealisme et la transformation du litteraire By approaching modernism through the very questions its protagonists were asking themselves, Cole destabilizes the terms of this history, in turn opening up vital new questions-and offering insightful, original answers-about the global character of the avant-garde. This fascinating and meticulously researched book reveals the questionnaire as a quintessential site for experimental art and literature with vast implications for how we understand the self-reflexive processes through which cultural meaning is produced and received. -Gwen Allen, author of Artists' Magazines: An Alternative Space for Art Lori Cole presents a new interpretation of modernism by examining the networks and circulation of ideas and images elaborated in transatlantic magazines. Using the questionnaire as a framework, her study destabilizes dominant narratives and reveals the numerous and often conflicting voices that contributed to and shaped notions of the avant-garde. -Michele Greet, author of Beyond National Identity: Pictorial Indigenism as a Modernist Strategy in Andean Art, 1920-1960 Turning the manifesto-the touchstone genre for avant-gardists in the twentieth century-on its head, Lori Cole's provocative, innovative, and deeply researched book reveals the questionnaire to have been a constitutive genre of declaration-by-interrogation across the arts of the Americas. With this counterintuitive and superbly convincing study, Cole opens new pathways for scholars in multiple languages to pursue the politics and populaces that made modern aesthetics. -Gayle Rogers, author of Incomparable Empires: Modernism and the Translation of Spanish and American Literature

An outstanding contribution to modernist studies in general, to discussions on global modernism in particular, and to periodical studies. The questionnaire in modernist magazines is brought forth as a genre of paramount importance for the self-perception of modernism, as it shaped public discussions about the relevance, scope, and limitations of the modernist project. Lori Cole skillfully brings together magazines across three continents and re-creates a fascinating snapshot of the connections, networks, and circulation of ideas that were vital for the writers and artists of the period. --Effie Rentzou, author of Litt rature malgr elle: Le surr alisme et la transformation du litt raire By approaching modernism through the very questions its protagonists were asking themselves, Cole destabilizes the terms of this history, in turn opening up vital new questions--and offering insightful, original answers--about the global character of the avant-garde. This fascinating and meticulously researched book reveals the questionnaire as a quintessential site for experimental art and literature with vast implications for how we understand the self-reflexive processes through which cultural meaning is produced and received. --Gwen Allen, author of Artists' Magazines: An Alternative Space for Art Lori Cole presents a new interpretation of modernism by examining the networks and circulation of ideas and images elaborated in transatlantic magazines. Using the questionnaire as a framework, her study destabilizes dominant narratives and reveals the numerous and often conflicting voices that contributed to and shaped notions of the avant-garde. --Michele Greet, author of Beyond National Identity: Pictorial Indigenism as a Modernist Strategy in Andean Art, 1920-1960 Turning the manifesto--the touchstone genre for avant-gardists in the twentieth century--on its head, Lori Cole's provocative, innovative, and deeply researched book reveals the questionnaire to have been a constitutive genre of declaration-by-interrogation across the arts of the Americas. With this counterintuitive and superbly convincing study, Cole opens new pathways for scholars in multiple languages to pursue the politics and populaces that made modern aesthetics. --Gayle Rogers, author of Incomparable Empires: Modernism and the Translation of Spanish and American Literature You've filled out a million of them, but have you ever really considered the questionnaire? Lori Cole has--and in Surveying the Avant-Garde she seats it beside the manifesto as a core genre of modernist self-portraiture and self-promotion. The result is a fascinating new take on a range of modernist print communities. What Cole has rejoined--the manifesto and the questionnaire, the bullhorn of avant-gardes and their fissured mirror--let no one put asunder. --Paul K. Saint-Amour, author of The Copywrights: Intellectual Property and the Literary Imagination

One of Surveying the Avant-Garde's strengths is to be found in a deft compass for cosmopolitan literary history, which has no geographic home but which navigates a web of European and Latin American alliances in Paris, Havana, Madrid, and Buenos Aires. --Harris Feinsod, American Literary History You've filled out a million of them, but have you ever really considered the questionnaire? Lori Cole has--and in Surveying the Avant-Garde she seats it beside the manifesto as a core genre of modernist self-portraiture and self-promotion. The result is a fascinating new take on a range of modernist print communities. What Cole has rejoined--the manifesto and the questionnaire, the bullhorn of avant-gardes and their fissured mirror--let no one put asunder. --Paul K. Saint-Amour, author of The Copywrights: Intellectual Property and the Literary Imagination An outstanding contribution to modernist studies in general, to discussions on global modernism in particular, and to periodical studies. The questionnaire in modernist magazines is brought forth as a genre of paramount importance for the self-perception of modernism, as it shaped public discussions about the relevance, scope, and limitations of the modernist project. Lori Cole skillfully brings together magazines across three continents and re-creates a fascinating snapshot of the connections, networks, and circulation of ideas that were vital for the writers and artists of the period. --Effie Rentzou, author of Litt rature malgr elle: Le surr alisme et la transformation du litt raire By approaching modernism through the very questions its protagonists were asking themselves, Cole destabilizes the terms of this history, in turn opening up vital new questions--and offering insightful, original answers--about the global character of the avant-garde. This fascinating and meticulously researched book reveals the questionnaire as a quintessential site for experimental art and literature with vast implications for how we understand the self-reflexive processes through which cultural meaning is produced and received. --Gwen Allen, author of Artists' Magazines: An Alternative Space for Art Turning the manifesto--the touchstone genre for avant-gardists in the twentieth century--on its head, Lori Cole's provocative, innovative, and deeply researched book reveals the questionnaire to have been a constitutive genre of declaration-by-interrogation across the arts of the Americas. With this counterintuitive and superbly convincing study, Cole opens new pathways for scholars in multiple languages to pursue the politics and populaces that made modern aesthetics. --Gayle Rogers, author of Incomparable Empires: Modernism and the Translation of Spanish and American Literature Lori Cole presents a new interpretation of modernism by examining the networks and circulation of ideas and images elaborated in transatlantic magazines. Using the questionnaire as a framework, her study destabilizes dominant narratives and reveals the numerous and often conflicting voices that contributed to and shaped notions of the avant-garde. --Michele Greet, author of Beyond National Identity: Pictorial Indigenism as a Modernist Strategy in Andean Art, 1920-1960

You've filled out a million of them, but have you ever really considered the questionnaire? Lori Cole has--and in Surveying the Avant-Garde she seats it beside the manifesto as a core genre of modernist self-portraiture and self-promotion. The result is a fascinating new take on a range of modernist print communities. What Cole has rejoined--the manifesto and the questionnaire, the bullhorn of avant-gardes and their fissured mirror--let no one put asunder. --Paul K. Saint-Amour, author of The Copywrights: Intellectual Property and the Literary Imagination An outstanding contribution to modernist studies in general, to discussions on global modernism in particular, and to periodical studies. The questionnaire in modernist magazines is brought forth as a genre of paramount importance for the self-perception of modernism, as it shaped public discussions about the relevance, scope, and limitations of the modernist project. Lori Cole skillfully brings together magazines across three continents and re-creates a fascinating snapshot of the connections, networks, and circulation of ideas that were vital for the writers and artists of the period. --Effie Rentzou, author of Litt rature malgr elle: Le surr alisme et la transformation du litt raire By approaching modernism through the very questions its protagonists were asking themselves, Cole destabilizes the terms of this history, in turn opening up vital new questions--and offering insightful, original answers--about the global character of the avant-garde. This fascinating and meticulously researched book reveals the questionnaire as a quintessential site for experimental art and literature with vast implications for how we understand the self-reflexive processes through which cultural meaning is produced and received. --Gwen Allen, author of Artists' Magazines: An Alternative Space for Art Turning the manifesto--the touchstone genre for avant-gardists in the twentieth century--on its head, Lori Cole's provocative, innovative, and deeply researched book reveals the questionnaire to have been a constitutive genre of declaration-by-interrogation across the arts of the Americas. With this counterintuitive and superbly convincing study, Cole opens new pathways for scholars in multiple languages to pursue the politics and populaces that made modern aesthetics. --Gayle Rogers, author of Incomparable Empires: Modernism and the Translation of Spanish and American Literature Lori Cole presents a new interpretation of modernism by examining the networks and circulation of ideas and images elaborated in transatlantic magazines. Using the questionnaire as a framework, her study destabilizes dominant narratives and reveals the numerous and often conflicting voices that contributed to and shaped notions of the avant-garde. --Michele Greet, author of Beyond National Identity: Pictorial Indigenism as a Modernist Strategy in Andean Art, 1920-1960

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Lori Cole is Clinical Associate Professor and Associate Director of the interdisciplinary master’s program XE: Experimental Humanities & Social Engagement at New York University.

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