Sculptors against the state: anarchism and the Anglo-European avant-garde

Abstract

"Considers the relation of anarchist ideology to avant-garde sculpture through an examination of iconic artists and writers whose work transformed European modernism: Jacob Epstein, Oscar Wilde, Umberto Boccioni, F. T. Marinetti, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, and Ezra Pound"--

Contents

Introduction : anarchism then and now -- "Life's joy" : censorship, homosexuality, and Jacob Epstein's Tomb of Oscar Wilde -- Sculpting an antidemocratic insurrection : Umberto Boccioni's Unique forms of continuity in space -- Henri Gaudier-Brzeska's La guerre sociale : satire, Apaches, and antimilitarism -- Into the vortex : Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, Ezra Pound, and sculptural nominalism -- Conclusion : anarchist aesthetics and ideology; shaping states of mind.