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Book Title
Raiding the Icebox : Reflections on Twentieth-Century Culture
Publication Name
Raiding the Icebox
Title
Raiding the Icebox
Subtitle
Reflections on Twentieth-Century Culture
Author
Peter Wollen
Format
Trade Paperback
ISBN-10
1844672506
EAN
9781844672509
ISBN
9781844672509
Publisher
Verso Books
Genre
Art, Social Science
Release Date
17/08/2008
Release Year
2008
Language
English
Country/Region of Manufacture
GB
Item Height
0.7in
Item Length
9.2in
Item Width
6.1in
Item Weight
12.8 Oz
Publication Year
2008
Topic
Sociology / General, General, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, History / General
Number of Pages
240 Pages

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Raiding the Icebox is a kaleidoscopic review of the avant-garde and radical subcultures of the twentieth century, and explains how the most powerful artistic statements of the era redrew the line between high and low art. Beginning with an analysis of the role of Diaghilev and the Russian Ballet, Wollen argues that modernism has always had a hidden, suppressed side which cannot easily be absorbed into the master-narrative of modernity. Wollen reviews the hopes, fears and expectations of artists and critics such as the Bauhaus movement, as fascinated by Henry Ford's assembly line as they were by the Hollywood dream factory, concluding with Guy Debord's caustic dystopian vision of an all-consuming "Society of the Spectacle." Finally, Wollen chronicles the emergence of a subversive sensibility as he explores some of the unexpected new cultural forms which non-Western artists are taking as modernism enters into crisis at the beginning of a new century: reversing the rules of the game and raiding the icebox of the West.

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Publisher
Verso Books
ISBN-10
1844672506
ISBN-13
9781844672509
eBay Product ID (ePID)
63879627

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Book Title
Raiding the Icebox : Reflections on Twentieth-Century Culture
Author
Peter Wollen
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Sociology / General, General, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, History / General
Publication Year
2008
Genre
Art, Social Science
Number of Pages
240 Pages

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Item Length
9.2in
Item Height
0.7in
Item Width
6.1in
Length
9.2in
Item Weight
12.8 Oz

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Edition Description
Revised Edition,New Edition
Reviews
'eoeTo engage with Raiding the Icebox is exhilarating. Wolllen's lightlycarried erudition seems to belong to an earlier epoch, before theprofessionalization of the intellectual led to the construction of a dismayinglanguage of criticism, notable for its ugly opacity. Throughout, Raiding theIcebox is a Pandora'e(tm)s box of cultural subversion, filled with anastonishingly wide range of histories of art and artists.'e�, "To engage with Raiding the Icebox is exhilarating. Wolllen's lightly carried erudition seems to belong to an earlier epoch, before the professionalization of the intellectual led to the construction of a dismaying language of criticism, notable for its ugly opacity. Throughout, Raiding the Icebox is a Pandora's box of cultural subversion, filled with an astonishingly wide range of histories of art and artists."-Elizabeth Wilson, New Left Review, Praise for the first edition"Klein clearly follows in (Mike) Davis's wake, but develops a distinctive focus on the erasure of memory in and about the city." Times Literary Supplement"Klein is a fine stylist, an engaging historian. His account of the way noir shaped the city is strikingly fresh." New Scientist"1997's most important publication from the brilliant new wave of urban theorists revolutionizing the study of L.A." LA Weekly
Copyright Date
1993
Dewey Decimal
700.904
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
20

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