Between Worlds: A Sourcebook of Central European Avant-Gardes, 1910-1930

Between Worlds: A Sourcebook of Central European Avant-Gardes, 1910-1930, edited by Éva Forgács and Timothy O. Benson/ ISBN 9780262025300 / 736-page hardcover / discounted book but in excellent condition *** Hundreds of primary documents from the Central European artistic avant-gardes, most of them translated into English for the first time. The avant-garde movements of Central Europe were an integral part of modernism's evolution as it reached its peak throughout the continent during the 1920s. Written documents—manifestoes, artists' statements, and reviews—were the lifeblood of these movements and, during the periods when political events conspired to isolate them, one of their few means of communication and exchange. Much of this crucial evidence has become lost to us, and the artistic avant-gardes of Central Europe have been a blind spot of modernist studies. Until their narratives have been recovered, the story of modernism will remain incomplete. In this book an international tea