The Marginalisation of Art The Avant-Garde, De-Realisation, and the Art Attack

Richard Murphy is Professor of Comparative Literature and Film, and holds the Chair in German at the University of Sussex, where he was also founder of the postgraduate programmes in Modernism, and in Film Studies. He has written on literature, film and theory in connection with modernism, postmodernism and the avant-garde, with recent essays on Reception Aesthetics and "Post Theory," Expressionist poetics and Weimar cinema, and the contemporary avant-garde in film and literature. He is the author of Theorizing the Avant-Garde: Modernism, Expressionism and the Problem of Postmodernity (Cambridge UP, 1999).