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OverviewThe Poetics of the Avant-garde in Literature, Arts, and Philosophy presents a range of chapters written by a highly international group of scholars from disciplines such as literary studies, arts, theatre, and philosophy to analyze the ambitions of avant-garde artists. Together, these essays highlight the interdisciplinary scope of the historic avant-garde and the interconnected of its artists. Contributors analyze topics such as abstraction and estrangement across the arts, the imaginary dialogue between Lev Yakubinsky and Mikhail Bakhtin, the problem of the “masculine ethos” in the Russian avant-garde, the transformation of barefoot dancing, Kazimir Malevich’s avant-garde poetic experimentations, the ecological imagination of the Polish avant-garde, science-fiction in the Russian avant-garde cinema, and the almost forgotten history of the avant-garde children’s literature in Germany. The chapters in this collection open a new critical discourse about the avant-garde movement in Europe and reshape contemporary understandings of it. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Slav N. Gratchev , Olga Burenina-Petrova , Irina Evdokimova , Michael EskinPublisher: Lexington Books Imprint: Lexington Books Dimensions: Width: 15.80cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 23.00cm Weight: 0.585kg ISBN: 9781793615749ISBN 10: 1793615748 Pages: 246 Publication Date: 05 October 2020 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Not yet available  This item is yet to be released. You can pre-order this item and we will dispatch it to you upon its release. Table of ContentsChapter 1: Abstraction and Estrangement across the Arts in the Russian Avant-garde Norbert Francis Chapter 2: L. P. Yakubinsky and M. M. Bakhtin: A Brief History of a 'Dialogue' that Never Really Was Chapter 3: Strong, Manly and Bold : The Russian Avant-Garde and its Masculine Mantra Tim Harte Chapter 4: Flying Too Close to the Sun: Impersonations of Duncan in Russia Mark Konecny Chapter 5: Role of the Newspaper Art of the Commune in the Establishment of Proletarian Art Natalia Murray Chapter 6: Malevich's Ule Elye Lel : A Suprematist's Avant-garde Poetic Experimentations Margarita Marinova Chapter 7: The Ecological Avant-garde: Arkady Fiedler's The River of Singing Fish Ida Day Chapter 8: Science Fiction in the Russian Avant-garde Cinema of the 1920s and Anarchism Olga Burenina-Petrova Chapter 9: Moscow Conceptualism, Post-Suprematism, and Beyond: Reimagining the Russian Avant-garde Mary A. Nicholas Chapter 10: The Bauhaus and the Children: An Almost Forgotten History of Avant-garde Children's Literature Bettina Kummerling-Meibauer Chapter 11: The Problems of Translation and Popularization of Russian Avant-garde Texts in the West Irina Evdokimova Chapter 12: A Radical Emigre: Naum Gabo and the Legacy of the October Revolution Christina LodderReviews"This wide-ranging collection cuts across disciplinary boundaries, enriching and refining our understanding of the Russian avant-garde; there is so much that is new here and so much that readers with interest in art history, film, literature, architecture, and dance are bound to enjoy.--Galin Tihanov, George Steiner Professor of Comparative Literature, Queen Mary University of London With a brief nod to the broadly international and interdisciplinary nature of the avant-garde as a unifying factor, the editor Slav N. Gratchev devotes the volume's introduction to a summary of the individual chapters without proposing an overarching structure to pull them together. This serves to emphasize the diffuse nature of the avant-garde as a tenuous assemblage of topics with the editor as more bricoleur than conductor. The twelve essays in the volume thus work as individual case histories with a tendency to examine somewhat narrow swaths of the literary, cultural, and philosophical landscape that comprised the Russian and East-European avant-garde. This degree of focus frequently makes this book a valuable guide to specific corners and niches of the avant-garde that contribute to the movement's distinctiveness. The insights offered by a more microscopic approach to the avant-garde are evident in a number of the volume's chapters. -- ""The Russian Review""" This wide-ranging collection cuts across disciplinary boundaries, enriching and refining our understanding of the Russian avant-garde; there is so much that is new here and so much that readers with interest in art history, film, literature, architecture, and dance are bound to enjoy.--Galin Tihanov, George Steiner Professor of Comparative Literature, Queen Mary University of London This wide-ranging collection cuts across disciplinary boundaries, enriching and refining our understanding of the Russian avant-garde; there is so much that is new here and so much that readers with interest in art history, film, literature, architecture, and dance are bound to enjoy. With a brief nod to the broadly international and interdisciplinary nature of the avant-garde as a unifying factor, the editor Slav N. Gratchev devotes the volume's introduction to a summary of the individual chapters without proposing an overarching structure to pull them together. This serves to emphasize the diffuse nature of the avant-garde as a tenuous assemblage of topics with the editor as more bricoleur than conductor. The twelve essays in the volume thus work as individual case histories with a tendency to examine somewhat narrow swaths of the literary, cultural, and philosophical landscape that comprised the Russian and East-European avant-garde. This degree of focus frequently makes this book a valuable guide to specific corners and niches of the avant-garde that contribute to the movement's distinctiveness. The insights offered by a more microscopic approach to the avant-garde are evident in a number of the volume's chapters. Author InformationSlav N. Gratchev is associate professor of Spanish at Marshall University. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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