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Article: Cubism in the Shadow of War: The Avant-Garde and Politics in Paris 1905-1914.(Review)
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- June 22, 2000
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Cubism in the Shadow of War: The Avant-Garde and Politics in Paris 1905-1914. By David Cottington. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1998. Pp. vii, 258. $50.00.)
There is much to like about this attempt to place cubism within the social, political, and economic context of prewar Paris and its challenges to formalist readings of the avant-garde as isolated and even self-consciously alienated from much of mainstream culture and political life with a primary focus on aesthetic issues. Cottington argues that the "relation between the avant-garde and political discourse" and even its "aestheticism" has been oversimplified in previous studies, and aims "to ...