Artistes et théâtres d'avant-garde

This book explores the responses of leading European avant-garde painters to the operas of Richard Wagner, the most influential composer of the late nineteenth century. The term av...

Crossing the boundaries of a single-author study, this book uncovers Flann O'Brien's attempt to forge a commercially successful Irish literary project from international avant-gard...

In his debut collection, Some Trees (1956), John Ashbery poses a question that resonates across his oeuvre and much modern art: “How could he explain to them his prayer / that natu...

Abstract The early twentieth century ushered in an exciting wave of avant-garde artistic innovation. While Igor Stravinsky was thinking about new ways of interpretin...