Abstract
Something there is (to paraphrase Frost), that doesn’t love a hierarchy; and something there is that loves a hierarchy very much. The history of modern collective creation is perhaps above all a chronicle of that tension—the counter-pull of autocracy and democracy, of creative authority and the generative capacities of the group—and perhaps at no time more noticeably than during the first half the twentieth century.
Let us see now if in all the dramatic impedimenta of the past there is anything for the people.1
—Romain Rolland
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Syssoyeva, K.M. (2013). Preface to Part I: From Monastic Cell to Communist Cell. In: Syssoyeva, K.M., Proudfit, S. (eds) A History of Collective Creation. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137331304_2
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