"Adamson leads his readers through intricate debates with care and skill. Even the non-specialist reader will come away with an understanding of the stakes in modernist studies."--Mary Gluck, author of "Popular Bohemia: Modernism and Urban Culture in Nineteenth-Century Paris" "No serious student of the European avant-garde in the early twentieth century will be able to overlook this subtle and impassioned attempt to rethink its history: its far-reaching ambitions and its strategies for achieving them, its successes and its ...
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"Adamson leads his readers through intricate debates with care and skill. Even the non-specialist reader will come away with an understanding of the stakes in modernist studies."--Mary Gluck, author of "Popular Bohemia: Modernism and Urban Culture in Nineteenth-Century Paris" "No serious student of the European avant-garde in the early twentieth century will be able to overlook this subtle and impassioned attempt to rethink its history: its far-reaching ambitions and its strategies for achieving them, its successes and its failures. Because of Adamson's distinctive perspective and the breadth of his research, I persistently found myself being forced to rethink the history of the European avant-garde and question some of my own assumptions and conclusions."--Robert Wohl, author of "The Spectacle of Flight: Aviation and the Western Imagination, 1920-1950"
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