The Politics of Modernism Against the New Conformists

Abstract

This is an exploration of the ambivalent relationship between revolutionary politics and modernist or avant-garde art. Williams clarifies many of the issues that have dogged recent critical discussion: the term itself; the distinction between modernism and avant garde; and the possibility of a cultural theory beyond the modern which avoids the pitfalls of postmodernism. Raymond Williams is the author of Politics and Letters, Problems in Materialsm and Culture, Resources of Hope and Writing in Society.

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Raymond Williams, Tony Pinkney (1989). The Politics of Modernism Against the New Conformists. Lancaster EPrints (Lancaster University).

@article{raymond1989the,
  title  = {The Politics of Modernism Against the New Conformists},
  author = {Williams, Raymond and Pinkney, Tony},
  year   = {1989},
  journal = {Lancaster EPrints (Lancaster University)}
}

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