After the wake : an essay on the contemporary avant-garde / Christopher Butler
1980, First Edition. Oxford New York : Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #432137
ISBN: 0198157665
Physical description; xi, 177 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents; Introduction -- Part One: History -- Postmodernism and innovation -- Part Two: Exposition -- The serialist idea -- The new novel -- Abstraction and concept -- Time suspended -- The disordered environment: collage -- Change -- Part Three: Polemic -- The avant-garde and the culture -- The experience of the work of art. Subjects; Joyce, James 1882-1941 Finnegans wake Influence. 1900-1999. Geschichte 1945-1979. Avant-garde (Aesthetics). Arts, Modern 20th century.
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