Sinossi
Raiding the Icebox is a kaleidoscopic review of the avant-garde andradical subcultures of the twentieth century, and explains how the mostpowerful artistic statements of the era redrew the line between high and lowart.
Beginning with an analysis of the role of Diaghilev and the Russian Ballet,Wollen argues that modernism has always had a hidden, suppressed side whichcannot easily be absorbed into the master-narrative of modernity.
Wollen reviews the hopes, fears and expectations of artists and critics suchas the Bauhaus movement, as fascinated by Henry Ford’s assembly line as theywere by the Hollywood dream factory, concluding with Guy Debord’s causticdystopian vision of an all-consuming “Society of the Spectacle.”
Finally, Wollen chronicles the emergence of a subversive sensibility as heexplores some of the unexpected new cultural forms which non-Western artistsare taking as modernism enters into crisis at the beginning of a new century:reversing the rules of the game and raiding the icebox of the West.
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“To engage with Raiding the Icebox is exhilarating. Wolllen’s lightly carried erudition seems to belong to an earlier epoch, before the professionalization of the intellectual led to the construction of a dismaying language of criticism, notable for its ugly opacity. Throughout, Raiding the Icebox is a Pandora’s box of cultural subversion, filled with an astonishingly wide range of histories of art and artists.”—Elizabeth Wilson, New Left Review
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Peter Wollen was Chair of the Department of Film, Television and New Media at the University of California, Los Angeles. His other books include Paris/Hollywood: Writings on Film and Paris/Manhattan: Writings on Art.
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