The assault on culture: Utopian currents from Lettrisme to class war by Stewart Home (PDF)

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⭐I have been reading around , and studying the post Futurist/Dada avant garde scene for nearly 25 years, and Home’s work is as good as it gets.Ignore the other reviewers who read Home’s work as “fun and hip” — but shallow and flawed. Such judgments prove just how little the American audience understand European art movements of the 20th century — Home’s work is far far deeper, and along with the source texts from Debord, Vaneigem etc — his book will set the benchmark for awhile yet.Home’s work is no idle commentary on Debord’s work, neither is it a book of adulation, or simplistic analysis — Home has a sharp, perceptive mind, that ADDS SIGNIFICANTLY to an understanding of Dada, Futurism, Situationists, the Lettrists, and even to an understanding of medieval mystic heretics and their ascetic subversion of accepted reality,as well as touching on Rimbaud and Baudelaire’s place in the lineage,commenting on their concept of the flaneur.And Home is no fawning “fan boy” either, in awe of art’s “heroes”. His work is not a hagiography, and he is, at points, scathingly , perceptively critical of those involved — see his pertinent dismissal of certain aspects of Tzara, Adorno and Debord’s contradictory dialetic,theory and intellectual snobbery.Along with SOCIETY OF THE SPECTACLE, DADA DRUMMER, FLIGHT OUT OF TIME,REVOLUTION OF EVERY DAY LIFE, Richter’s DADA ART AND ANTI ART,Flynt’s BLUEPRINT FOR A HIGHER CIVILIZATION and MARINETTI’S FUTURIST MANIFESTOES — Home’s work is *THE* definitive analytic, critical text of the moment.Home’s work is essential reading for anyone at all interested in 20th Century art, and by association, the field of knowledge the key Post Modernists (Foucault, Derrida, Lyotard, Baudrillard) went on to exploit.If you enjoyed “The Spectre of Marx”,”Discipline and Punish,” For a “Political Economy of the Sign” — then “Assault on Culture” is for you.As far as art critique and total subversion of political dialectic goes –Home is where it’s at — most of the others are fakers.Home is the real thing — Ask Peter Ackroyd, Iain Sinclair, and Henry Flynt.The other reviews here show so very little understanding of the entire field Home investigates so critically, and so very well.

⭐Stewart Home, The Assault on Culture: Utopian Currents from Lettrisme to Class War (Aporia Press/Unpopular Books, 1988)Home’s first published work, The Assault on Culture is a slim survey of twentieth-century avant-garde art in which Home attempts to draw the influences that ran through various Utopian artistic movements. It was a first step in a right direction, though one no one (including Home) has picked up on in the intervening fifteen years. Pity, as Home (who knows he’s only scratching the surface, ans as much as says so in the afterward) laid the groundwork for a unified field theory of the avant-garde that could be a truly groundbreaking work. If he were to return to it now, given Home’s ever-increasing popularity, he could come up with a definitive volume. Look at The Assault on Culture as an outline of what might have been.The chapters are short and snappy, introducing the reader to various movements (most of which he’s probably never heard of), tracing the back-and-forth of various artists within them and touching on the political upheavals that led to person X getting kicked out of movement A and going on to form movement B, or what have you. In one sense, The Assault on Culture is a family tree. It is perhaps best looked at this way, and as something upon which others could build future research. So what are you waiting for? Hop to it. ***

⭐Well-researched and highly readable account of 20th Centiry utopian movements. Very useful and full of poignant insights. Highly recommended and very useful as an easy-to-read historical source.

⭐Fast delivery great book, well worth a read. Good condition. I recommend this to anyone who is interested in this sort of thing

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