The Invention of Politics in the European Avant-Garde (1906-1940)

In 1906, for the first time in his life, F.T. Marinetti connected the term avant-garde' with the idea of the future, thus paving the way for what is now commonly called the modernist' or historical avant-garde'. Since 1906 the ties between the early twentieth-century European aesthetic vanguard and politics have been a matter of debate. With a century gone by, The Invention of Politics in the European Avant-Garde takes stock of this debate. Opening with a critical introduction to the vast resear