The Janus Face of the German Avant-Garde: From Expressionism Toward Postmodernism: Avant-Garde & Modernism Studies

Among the avant-garde of the early twentieth century, the German movement remains one of the least understood in the current avant-garde and modernism debates. Rainer Rumold fills this gap with the first large-scale reassessment of the heyday and afterlife of German expressionist and Dada productions as a prolonged crisis of literary culture.