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The Art of Living in Avant-Garde Paris: Ethics and Self-Making in Dada, Simultanism, and Surrealism

By (author) Rachel Silveri

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How artists of interwar Paris created an â€œart of living,â€ treating their daily lives as an aesthetic, ethical, and creative practice. Â With The Art of Living in Avant-Garde Paris, Rachel Silveri takes a fresh look at the desire to unify art and life, an ambition long regarded as foundational to the European historical avant-gardes. She reveals how many early twentieth-century artists saw their own everyday livesâ€”their bodies, identities, and relationshipsâ€”as a type of creative material and a central component to their avant-garde practice. These artists abandoned traditional forms of artmaking and venues of art viewing, instead aspiring to integrate art with everyday life, creating an â€œart of living.â€ Â Considering Tristan Tzaraâ€™s performances of Dadaist identity, Sonia Delaunayâ€™s simultaneous fashions and self-branding, and the collective endeavor to open and operate the Surrealist Research Bureau, Silveri offers a new narrative about how the artists of interwar Paris developed experiential life practices that resisted dominant forms of â€œlifestyleâ€ and normative discourses surrounding gender, ethnicity, and office work. This book argues that ethical questions of â€œHow should I live?â€ and â€œHow should I relate to others?â€ were as important to the avant-garde as politics, and that aspirations to change the world played out in daily practices of self-making. Â

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