American Culture Between the Wars

Revisionary Modernism and Postmodern Critique

By: Walter Kalaidjian

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Paperback | 27 January 1994 | Edition Number 1

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This study examines the feminist, African-American and populist avant-garde that flourished in the era of American modernism. Arguing that American modernism runs much deeper than the seminal contributions of Wallace Stevens, T.S. Eliot and Ezra Pound, Kalaidjian revisits the "historical avant-garde" showcased in magazines of the period. This revisionary study discusses public art in the Depression era, proletarian subculture, and the social poetics of Kenneth Fearing, Muriel Rukeyser and Langston Hughes. Kalaidjian establishes a continuity between interwar modernist movements and the contemporary work of Barbara Kruger, Jenny Holzer, Sue Coe, Hans Haacke and others.

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Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Vision Thing	p. 1
The Twilight of High Modernism	p. 1
The Historical Avant-Garde	p. 5
Revolution and Social Modernization	p. 8
Political Critique in Postmodern Culture	p. 14
Revisionary Modernism	p. 19
Transnational America	p. 19
The Constructivist Moment	p. 28
Articulating the Masses	p. 35
Communal Forms and the JRC	p. 47
War of Position and the Old Left	p. 59
Subculture in The Depression Era	p. 59
Harlem Partisans	p. 66
Artists in Uniform	p. 105
The Guerrilla Aesthetics of Diego Rivera	p. 109
Fordism and Americanism	p. 122
Left Androcentrism and the Male Dynamo	p. 138
The Feminist Vanguard in the Popular Front	p. 160
Muriel Rukeyser and the Poetics of Specific Critique	p. 160
Rereading "The Book of the Dead"	p. 165
The Visual Culture of the New Deal	p. 175
Transpersonal Poetics	p. 188
L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E Writing and the Historical Avant-Gardes	p. 188
Kenneth Fearing's Textual Recodings	p. 199
The New Times of Postmodernity	p. 211
From Spectacle to Simulation	p. 211
The Regime of Signs: Matt Mullican	p. 222
Tactics of Intervention: Barbara Kruger, Jenny Holzer, and Nancy Spero	p. 225
Soliciting Censorship: Hans Haacke	p. 244
Epilogue: Acting Up	p. 252
Notes	p. 265
Picture Credits	p. 305
Index	p. 307
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