Modernism and Its Merchandise: The Spanish Avant-Garde and Material Culture, 1920-1930

by Juli Highfill

The writers and artists of the Spanish avant-garde, enthralled with the streamlined, mass-produced commodities of the Machine Age, incorporated these objects into their literary and visual works. In doing so, they launched a broad inquiry into the relations between mind and matter, people and things, words and world. In Modernism and Its Merchandise, Juli Highfill traces that dissonant but productive line of inquiry by focusing on the objects...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271063459
• ISBN13: 9780271063454
• Release Date: July 2014
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.67 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.2" x 10.0"