{"product_id":"avant-garde-world-creation-cosmogony-and-the-total-work-of-art-in-europe-1913-1923-9781041004035","title":"Avant-Garde World Creation: Cosmogony and the Total Work of Art in Europe 1913-1923","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Abigael Van Alst\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Routledge\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Routledge\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Movements - Modernism\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book explores the widespread fascination with world creation among early twentieth-century artists and examines those trends within the European avant-garde.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book reflects on what 'the world' looks and feels like before and after World War One--and thus also concerns creativity and destruction alike in the context of modernity. Over the course of three chapters, the author focusses on works in which avant-garde artists combine and experiment with various arts and media to create alternative narratives of the world's creation. These works include three canonized 'total works of art' \u003cem\u003eDer Weltbaumeister\u003c\/em\u003e (\u003cem\u003eThe World's Master Builder\u003c\/em\u003e, 1920), an illustrated book imagined as an architectural play by the Expressionist architect Bruno Taut; the Futurist opera \u003ci\u003eПобеда над Cолнцем \u003c\/i\u003e(\u003cem\u003eVictory Over the Sun, \u003c\/em\u003e1913) by Aleksei Kruchenykh, Velimir Khlebnikov, Kazimir Malevich and Mikhail Matiushin; and the Cubist ballet \u003cem\u003eLa Cr�ation du monde\u003c\/em\u003e (\u003cem\u003eThe Creation of the World\u003c\/em\u003e, 1923) by Blaise Cendrars, Fernand L�ger, Darius Milhaud and Jean B�rlin. Providing new readings of these classic works that dive deeply into the avant-garde's inter-artistic search for new modes of mediation as well as its dialogue with science, politics and technology, Abigael van Alst demonstrates how each of these artworks staged a cosmogony--an alternative story of the universe's creation--which, simultaneously, experimentally and critically recounted the story of modernity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis new book is ideal for researchers and scholars in History of Art, Modernism, and Comparative Literature.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Routledge","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46931116654743,"sku":"9781041004035","price":12867.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781041004035.webp?v=1771611229","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/avant-garde-world-creation-cosmogony-and-the-total-work-of-art-in-europe-1913-1923-9781041004035","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}