David Ayers, Professor of Modernism and Critical Theory has just published an edited collection on The Aesthetics of Matter: Modernism, the Avant-Garde, and Material Exchange. The book is published as one of a regular series edited by the European Network of Avant-Garde and Modernism Studies [EAM], the organization chaired by Professor Ayers which held its conference at Kent last year, hosting 300 delegates from over 30 countries, with three quarters of delegates coming from outside the UK. This 400 page collection published by De Gruyter in Berlin contains work in English, French and German on topics which include, Kandinsky, Berlewi, Joyce, Hugnet, Ferneyhough, Hausmann and Neagu.
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