Modernist Melancholy
Guillaume Apollinaire and Francis Picabia after 1912
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12244623 |
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| Authors | Renee Rothman (0000-0002-1976-9149, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, USA,, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 20 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 5-26 |
| Publication date | 2009-02-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | French Cultural Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0957-1558 • E-ISSN: 1740-2352 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0957155808099341 |
| OpenAlex | W2110154929 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 5 |
The binary opposition that is said to hold between an enthusiastic, future-oriented avant-garde and a melancholic, past-oriented traditionalism deserves to be re-examined. This essay aims to complicate this binarism by highlighting a moment within the history of modernism when an enthusiasm regarding the future fused with a melancholy regarding the past. Both Guillaume Apollinaire and Francis Picabia were deeply committed to the avant-garde discourse of the new, yet a number of their works in the years after 1912 harbour an ambivalence that compels us to rethink the simple divide between modernism and anti-modernism and suggest that some of the central figures of modernism were simultaneously bound to the sentiment of nostalgia
Aesthetics · Ambivalence · Art · Art history · Binary opposition · Enthusiasm · Literature · Modernism (music · Opposition (politics · Political science · Politics · Psychoanalysis · Theology · French Historical and Cultural Studies · French Literature and Critical Theory · French Literature and Poetry · Law · Philosophy · Psychology
| Highly cited | No |
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