Professor of Spanish, Romance Languages and Literatures
highfill@umich.eduOffice Information:
phone: 734.764.5249
Center for European Studies; CES Faculty
Education/Degree:
Ph.D. University of Kansas, 1993
Highlighted Work and Publications
Modernism and Its Merchandise: The Spanish Avant-Garde and Material Culture, 1920-1930
Juli Highfill
The writers and artists of the Spanish avant-garde, enthralled with the streamlined, mass-produced commodities of the Machine Age, incorporated these objects into their literary and visual works. In doing so, they launched a broad inquiry into the relations between mind and matter, people and things, words and world. In Modernism and Its Merchandise, Juli Highfill traces that dissonant but productive line of inquiry by focusing on the objects of obsession for the Spanish vanguardists—starting with the fruit bowls of cubist still life; continuing with the merchandise, machines...
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