Modernism and the Culture of Market Society [Hardcover]

A broad-ranging 2004 study exploring the relation between the modernist avant-garde and capitalist culture.Many critics argue that the modernist avant-garde were always in opposition to the commercial values of a market driven society. For John Xiros Cooper, the avant-garde is actually one of the defining instances of capitalist culture: part of the brash, new capitalist culture in the early twentieth century. In their personal relationships, gender roles and sexual contacts, the Modernist avant-garde exemplified the impact of capitalism on everyday life. In this broad ranging study John Xiros Cooper explores this provocative theme across a wide range of Modernist authors.Many critics argue that the modernist avant-garde were always in opposition to the commercial values of a market driven society. For John Xiros Cooper, the avant-garde is actually one of the defining instances of capitalist culture: part of the brash, new capitalist culture in the early twentieth century. In their personal relationships, gender roles and sexual contacts, the Modernist avant-garde exemplified the impact of capitalism on everyday life. In this broad ranging study John Xiros Cooper explores this provocative theme across a wide range of Modernist authors.John Xiros Cooper asserts that the avant-garde is actually one of the defining instances of capitalist culture: part of the brash, new capitalist culture in the early twentieth century. The Modernist avant-garde exemplified the impact of capitalism on everyday life in their personal relationships, gender roles and sexual contacts. Cooper explores this provocative theme across a wide range of Modernist authors.Acknowledgements; Introduction: The modernist avant-garde and the culture of market society; Part I. The Posthuman Scene: 1. Approaching modernism; 2. Ideology; 3. Permanent revolution; 4. Epistemology of the market; Part II. The Regime of Unrest: Four Precursors: 5. Bloody face; 6. A variegated daguerreotype; 7. The unnameable;l#É