Total Expansion of the Letter: Avant-Garde Art and Language After Mallarme

Author: Trevor Stark Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 440 How cubism and Dada radically reimagined the social nature of language, following the utopian poetic vision of Stephane Mallarme.At the outset of the twentieth century, language became a visual medium and a philosophical problem for European avant-garde artists. In Total Expansion of the Letter, art historian Trevor Stark offers a provocative history of this "linguistic turn," centered on the radical doubt about the social function of language that defined the avant-garde...Read more