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Modern Times
Transantlantic Encounters in the 1920s
Staatliche Kunstsammlung Dresden/Archiv der Avantgarden - Egidio Marzona/Przemysław Strożek/Rudolf Fischer/Antonella B. Meloni/David Wittinghofer

246 pp.
150 color and black-and-white illustrations
thread-sewn softcover

Leipzig April, 2025
ISBN: 9783959058865

Width: 21 cm
Length: 28 cm

Language(s): English

Editor
Staatliche Kunstsammlung Dresden, Archiv der Avantgarden - Egidio Marzona, Przemysław Strożek, Rudolf Fischer, Antonella B. Meloni, David Wittinghofer

Author
Przemysław Strożek, Jed Rasula, Jennifer J. Wild, Meghan Forbes

Designer
Helen Stelthove

In the 1920s, transatlantic encounters between the USA and Europe redefined what it truly meant to be modern. These encounters encompassed numerous sociopolitical and cultural phenomena such as “Americanism,” Hollywood, jazz, Fordism, Taylorism, and the machine age, all intricately interwoven in a complex network of mutual influences. *Modern Times* shows that the European “-isms” — Futurism, Purism, Dada, Poetism, and Constructivism — were also closely interlinked with these phenomena, which shaped the decade of the “Roaring Twenties.”

Przemyslaw Strozek, scholar and curator at the Archive of the Avant-Garde. Jed Rasul, avant-garde researcher, emeritus professor at the University of Georgia. Jennifer J. Wild, film historian, teaches at the University of Southern California. Meghan Forbes, independent scholar researching Eastern European avant-gardes.

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