Regarding the Popular

Regarding the Popular charts the complex relationship between the avant-gardes and modernisms on the one hand and popular culture on the other. Covering (neo-)avant-gardists and modernists from various European countries, this second volume in the series European Avant-Garde and Modernism Studies explores the nature of so-called low culture, dealing with aspects as diverse as the everyday and the folkloric. Regarding the Popular charts the many ways in which the allegedly high modernists and avant-gardists looked at and represented the low. As such, this book will appeal to all those with an interest in the dynamic of modern experimental arts and literatures.

Sascha Bru and Laurence van Nuijs, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium; Benedikt Hjartarson, University of Iceland; Peter Nicholls, New York University, USA; Tanja Ørum, University of Copenhagen, Denmark; Hubert van den Berg, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland.