MODERNISM AND ITS MERCHANDISE

The writers and artists of the Spanish avant-garde, enthralled with the streamlined, mass-produced commodities of the Machine Age, i ncorporated these objects into their literary and visual works. In doing so, they launched a broad inquiry into the relations betwee n mind and matter, people and things, words and world. In Modernism and Its Merchandise, Juli Highfill traces that dissonant but pro ductive line of inquiry by focusing on the objects of obsession for the Spanish vanguardistsstarting with the fruit bowls of cubist still li...[Read more]