Allan Antliff. Anarchist Modernism: Art, Politics, and the First American Avant-Garde.(Book Review) From: Utopian Studies | Date: March 22, 2002| Author: Roslak, Robyn | COPYRIGHT 2002 Society for Utopian Studies. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001. xvi + 288 pp. $45.00 (cloth).

EVERY ACADEMIC DISCIPLINE has its share of ground-breaking studies that shape scholarship for years after they are published. This book is destined to be one of them. It not only demands a rethinking of the tenets of early American modernism-the most pervasive of which is that modernist art was primarily an a-political exercise in formal innovation--but also provides grist for the pursuit of many e...

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