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“This is a profoundly innovative and field-defining analysis of the productive intersections of aesthetics, ethics, and politics in the avant-garde exploration of the self. Its highly original thesis reframes avant-garde experimentalism as a vital precursor to critical theory. Silveri’s arguments are of major significance for the ongoing scholarly revaluation of international modernism and its complex relations to emergent media and processes of production and consumption.” -- Patricia Allmer, University of Edinburgh “In crystalline prose, Silveri analyzes these artists’ strategies of self-fashioning through pointed research on the more ephemeral aspects and materials of their quotidian lives. In doing so, she traces the commerce embedded in modernism, disrupting entrenched perspectives that refute (or deliberately ignore) the coupling of art and business, and thus illuminates how interwar artists manipulated the entrepreneurial to promote themselves and their art.” -- Vivien Greene, Senior Curator, 19th- and Early 20th-Century Art, Guggenheim Museum “Cutting through the myths of utopianism and failure regarding the avant-garde’s unification of art and life, Silveri masterfully orchestrates rigorous historiography with archival discovery and luminous insight to reveal how Dada, Simultanist, and Surrealist artists transformed daily practices into acts of radical creativity amidst modernity’s monolithic everyday. The Art of Living in Avant-Garde Paris invites us to see beyond the roster of avant-garde artists and objects to their concrete, ethical experiment in how to live.” -- Nell Andrew, University of Georgia

""In crystalline prose, Silveri analyzes these artists' strategies of self-fashioning through pointed research on the more ephemeral aspects and materials of their quotidian lives. In doing so, she traces the commerce embedded in modernism, disrupting entrenched perspectives that refute (or deliberately ignore) the coupling of art and business, and thus illuminates how interwar artists manipulated the entrepreneurial to promote themselves and their art.""--Vivien Greene, Senior Curator, 19th- and Early 20th-Century Art, Guggenheim Museum ""This is a profoundly innovative and field-defining analysis of the productive intersections of aesthetics, ethics, and politics in the avant-garde exploration of the self. Its highly original thesis reframes avant-garde experimentalism as a vital precursor to critical theory. Silveri's arguments are of major significance for the ongoing scholarly revaluation of international modernism and its complex relations to emergent media and processes of production and consumption.""--Patricia Allmer, University of Edinburgh

“This is a profoundly innovative and field-defining analysis of the productive intersections of aesthetics, ethics, and politics in the avant-garde exploration of the self. Its highly original thesis reframes avant-garde experimentalism as a vital precursor to critical theory. Silveri’s arguments are of major significance for the ongoing scholarly revaluation of international modernism and its complex relations to emergent media and processes of production and consumption.” -- Patricia Allmer, University of Edinburgh “In crystalline prose, Silveri analyzes these artists’ strategies of self-fashioning through pointed research on the more ephemeral aspects and materials of their quotidian lives. In doing so, she traces the commerce embedded in modernism, disrupting entrenched perspectives that refute (or deliberately ignore) the coupling of art and business, and thus illuminates how interwar artists manipulated the entrepreneurial to promote themselves and their art.” -- Vivien Greene, Senior Curator, 19th- and Early 20th-Century Art, Guggenheim Museum “Cutting through the myths of utopianism and failure regarding the avant-garde’s unification of art and life, Silveri masterfully orchestrates rigorous historiography with archival discovery and luminous insight to reveal how Dada, Simultanist, and Surrealist artists transformed daily practices into acts of radical creativity amidst modernity’s monolithic everyday. The Art of Living in Avant-Garde Paris invites us to see beyond the roster of avant-garde artists and objects to their concrete, ethical experiment in how to live.” -- Nell Andrew, University of Georgia “Silveri offers a transformative reformulation of the critical stakes in the art of living for the historical avant-gardes. Close analyses of the material practices of Tristan Tzara, Sonia Delaunay, and André Breton reveal that, far from a utopian ideal doomed to failure, their loosely shared ambition required variously differentiated negotiations—and accommodations—with normative social and ethical modes: the technologies of management, commerce, publicity, consumer culture, and gender relations foremost among them. Not least, by drawing on theoretical writings of Henri Lefebvre, Michel Foucault, and Judith Butler, she limns a fertile legacy—an everyday way of living—for our contemporary moment.” -- Lynne Cooke, curator and editor of ""Woven Histories: Textiles and Modern Abstraction"" ""Silveri’s first monograph describes how some avant-garde artists in interwar Paris incorporated their art into their daily life, creating an art of living by essentially treating their personal lives and their workplaces as extensions of their art. . . . Engagingly written, this accessible book on avant-garde artists’ incorporation of their art into their daily lives and identities is a must-read for modernist art historians. Academics will appreciate the varied primary sources and over 150 images including photos, illustrations, and extracts from manifestos, articles, newspapers, and journals."" * Library Journal *

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Rachel Silveri is assistant professor in the School of Art + Art History at the University of Florida.  

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