Title
Against the AvantGarde: Pier Paolo Pasolini, Contemporary Art, and Neocapitalism,Used
Sold by Ergodebooks, an authorized reseller.
Returns accepted within 30 days | support@ergodebooks.com
Shipping Information
- Free Standard Shipping — United States only
- Processing Time: 1–3 business days
- Estimated Delivery: 3–5 business days after dispatch
- Double-boxed, fully insured & discreetly packaged
- Tracking number sent via email once dispatched
- Orders over $250 require signature upon delivery. Taxes calculated at checkout.
Returns & Refund
Returns accepted within 30 days of delivery.
Damaged or Defective Item
Free return shipping + replacement or full refund
Wrong Item Received
Free return shipping + replacement or full refund
Change of Mind
Return shipping at customer's expense · 25% restocking fee applies
Payment Option
Recognized in America chiefly for his films, Pier Paolo Pasolini (19221975) in fact reinvented interdisciplinarity in postwar Europe. Pasolini selfconfessedly approached the cinematic image through painting, and the numerous allusions to early modern frescoes and altarpieces in his films have been extensively documented. Far less understood, however, is Pasolinis fraught relationship to the aesthetic experiments of his own age. In Against the AvantGarde, Ara H. Merjian demonstrates how Pasolinis campaign against neocapitalist culture fueled his hostility to the avantgarde. An atheist indebted to Catholic ritual; a revolutionary communist inimical to the creed of 1968; a homosexual hostile to the project of gay liberation: Pasolini refused the politics of identity in favor of a scandalously paradoxical practice, one vital to any understanding of his legacy. Against the AvantGarde examines these paradoxes through case studies from the 1960s and 1970s, concluding with a reflection on Pasolinis farreaching influence on post1970s art. Merjian not only reconsiders the multifaceted work of Italys most prominent postwar intellectual, but also the fraught politics of a European neoavantgarde grappling with a new capitalist hegemony.
⚠️ WARNING (California Proposition 65):
This product may contain chemicals known to the State of California to cause cancer, birth defects, or other reproductive harm.
For more information, please visit www.P65Warnings.ca.gov.