Avant Garde Cultural Movements of the 20th Century

Finding Books:

The items listed below are a selection of the recently published books available in the USF, St. Petersburg Poynter Library Collection and relevant to the Avant-Garde Cultural Movements of the 20 th Century lecture series. Reference books (call number prefaced by a REF) are located on the first floor of the library.   Books in the Circulation collection are located on the 2 nd and 3 rd floors of the library, however the majority of books on the avant-garde are shelved on the 3rd floor of the library under the classification range N and P.   To find more resources, do a keyword search on a particular artist or use the following subject headings in USF Libraries Online Catalog, the online book catalog for information on a particular movement:

                      •  Avant Garde Aesthethics

                      •  Avant Garde Music

                      •  Bauhaus

                      •  Cubism

                      •  Dadaism

                      •  Imagism

                      •  Modernism

                      •  Surrealism

                      •  Vorticism

Avant-Garde

A Dictionary of the Avant-Gardes                              REF NX456 .K67 2000  

A comprehensive interdisciplinary collection of short essays on avant-garde artists, movements, and styles.   Entries may include sections listing the artists' Works, Paintings, Recordings, Exhibition Catalog, and Selected Books.  

Debating American Modernism                                      N6512.5.M63 B35 2003

Examines American art between the years 1915 - 1929.   This book concentrates on the debates and relationship between the modernist art fractions as represented by Alfred Stieglitz (promoting an "intuitive and sensuous approach") and Marcel Duchamp ("champion of a more cerebral form of artistic investigation").

Vorticism

The Literary Vorticism of Ezra Pound and Wyndham Lewis                      PS3531.O82 Z57 1985

Dasenbrock defines Vorticism and discusses its use in the fiction and poetic works of Pound and Lewis.   In particular, he examines "condition of painting" as a modernist aspiration and how this effects the language and narrative of their works.

Vortex: Pound, Eliot, and Lewis                               PS324 .M37

Materer provides readers with a literary history of the ideology of modernism.   Using quotations, biographical information, and a discussion of the relationship between Pound, Eliot, and Lewis, Vortex examines the modernist context of political ideas, current events in the visual arts, and the study of poetics.   Also addresses other modernists, namely Henri Gaudier-Brzeska and James Joyce..

Surrealism and Art      

History of the Surrealist Movement                       NX456.5.S8 D8713 2002  

An extensive volume on the historical development of surrealism, chronologically arranged covering the periods from 1919 to 1969.   Includes a biographical appendix of brief essays on key surrealists and associates. Also provides a wide-ranging bibliography of primary and secondary resources on surrealism.

The Rise of Surrealism: Cubism, Dada, and the Pursuit of the Marvelous          NX456.5.S8 B64 2002

Provides a historical and theoretical examination of the international events, ideas, artists and writers that helped shape and usher in the Surrealist movement.   Much of this book is devoted to the competing styles of the avant-garde movements of Cubism (both literary and artistic), Metaphysical Art, Dada, and Surrealism.  

Surrealism and Cinema

The Age of Gold: Surrealist Cinema                        PN1995.9.S85 S56 2003

Examines the theory behind surrealist cinema as well as its precursors and subsequent cinematic legacy.    The two films Un Chien Andalou and L'Age d'Or are discussed in detail.

Dada and Surrealist Film                                      PN1995.9.S85 D34 1987

Collection of essays that analyzes the differences between Dada and Surrealist film and explores the context of film scenarios within the larger artistic movements.

Bauhaus

Bauhaus, 1919-1933                                              N332.G33 B443513 2002

Comprehensive history of the rise and demise of the Bauhaus movement.   Describes the aesthetic, pedagogical, technological, architectural, and social aims of the Bauhaus and addresses its "conflicts and contradictions." Illustrations taken from Bauhaus Archiv , Berlin .

Bauhaus                                                             N332.G33 B42513 2000

Organized around 3 elements of the Bauhaus: 1. Themes - offering insight into the historical, political, and educational background of the Bauhaus from its beginnings in Germany to its current international influence; 2. Works - addressing the directors of particular Bauhaus periods and the artistic masters, and 3. an appendix on the contemporary documentation and merchandising of Bauhaus designs.  

Walter Gropius and the Creation of the Bauhaus in Weimar                    N70 .F69    

Examines the conceptual foundation of Bauhaus and aims to locate and define its artistic ideals in the context of Weimar , Germany shortly after World War 1.

Modernism and Literature

Encyclopedia of Literary Modernism                                 REF PN56.M54 E53 2003

A quick reference resource to the authors, works, movements, theories, places, and events associated with literary modernism. Information is presented in mini-essays and focuses on English literary modernism and the period of 1890-1939.   All entries include a bibliography of primary and secondary sources and cross-references to related entries.  

Modern British Women Writers: an A-to-Z guide                 REF PR116 .M63 2002   

This work provides essays on 58 British women writers (including women born in England and in the British Empire ) during the modernism, anti-modernism, and post-modernism periods of the 20 th century. Each entry includes an overview of the writer's background, analysis of her works, assessment of her achievements, and bibliographical list of primary and secondary resources.  

The Senses of Modernism                                      PN56.M54 D36 2002

The author argues that "modernist aesthetics from Marcel Proust to James Joyce [are] an index of a technological mediated crisis of the senses, a perceptual crisis that ultimately cuts across the question of art."

Virginia Woolf

Modernist Women and Visual Cultures                                   PR6045.O72 Z725 2003

Focuses on the domestic photographs of Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell as well as the cinema writing of modernist artists such as Woolf, Colette, Richardson, and H.D. Bryer.   The purpose of this examination is to explore and analyze the relationship between gender, writing, and visual modernism.     

Outsiders Together                                                          PR6045.O72 Z8672 2000  

Rosenfeld examines the relation of Virgina and Leonard Woofe and their fictional representations of marriage ranging from images of dialogue to a shared sense of isolation.   The principle foci of this work are the writings of Virginia Woolf, although biographical information on both artists is also examined.

Salvadore Dali

Dalí: the Salvador Dalí Museum Collection                        N7113.D3 A4 2000

A complete catalogue of the Dali Museum collection, with images of the art works and accompanying narration of each specific art work and Dali's development as an artist.  

Salvador Dalí's Dream of Venus                                                                                   N7113.D3 A64 2002   

A description of Dali's Dream of Venus pavilion at the 1939 New York World's Fair. Schaffner's narrative of the historical and physical development of the pavilion within the political context of the time is complemented by photographs of the pavilion construction and the performance preparation.  

Created by Kaya Townsend

August 2004