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Book SynopsisThe 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.
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 Kümmerling-Meibauer
Chapter 11: The Problems of Translation and Popularization of Russian Avant-garde Texts in the West
Irina Evdokimova
Chapter 12: A Radical Emigré: Naum Gabo and the Legacy of the October Revolution
Christina Lodder
