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L’homme-machine – L’utopie d’un Homme nouveau ?

Armoured soldiers, sexualized machine men, mechanized athletes: Between 1914 and 1926, artists of the German and French avant-garde used the mechanical body as a motif to illustrate the crises of their time and to question man’s place in society. This volume analyses how the motif was staged – as a...

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Main Author: Frèrejean, Catherine
Format: Online
Language:French
Published: De Gruyter 2025
Subjects:
Avant-garde
Gender Studies
Machine Man
Modernity
Utopia
thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AB The arts: general topics
thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AF The Arts: art forms::AFC Paintings and painting
thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AG The Arts: treatments and subjects::AGA History of art
thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AG The Arts: treatments and subjects::AGB Individual artists, art monographs
thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AG The Arts: treatments and subjects::AGH Human figures depicted in art::AGHF Portraits and self-portraiture in art
Online Access:ONIX_20250218_9783111239507_84
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Summary:Armoured soldiers, sexualized machine men, mechanized athletes: Between 1914 and 1926, artists of the German and French avant-garde used the mechanical body as a motif to illustrate the crises of their time and to question man’s place in society. This volume analyses how the motif was staged – as a masculine utopia offering a saviour, a New Man – applying examples from key modernist works.

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