“What’s the Difference?” Revisiting the Concepts of Modernism and the Avant-Garde

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents IX
3. Introduction
4. Borderless Europe, Decentring Avant-Garde, Mosaic Modernism 3
5. Terms and Canons
6. “What’s the Difference?” Revisiting the Concepts of Modernism and the Avant-Garde 21
7. The Slovenian Interwar Literary Avant-Garde and Its Canonization 36
8. Toward a Horizontal History of the European Avant-Garde 49
9. The 20th Century: Century of the Arrière-Gardes? 59
10. “The Serpent Eats Its Tail”: Avant-Garde and Arrière-garde in Paris, 1943-1953 72
11. How We Look and Read: The European Avant-Garde’s Imprint on 20th-Century Theory 94
12. Images and Ideas
13. Phönix Europa? Krieg und Kultur in Rudolf Pannwitz’ und Hugo von Hofmannsthals europäischer Idee 113
14. Europa minor. Yvan and Claire Goll’s Europe 126
15. La revue Zenit: une avant-garde entre particularisme identitaire et internationalisme 138
16. Europa: une manifestation des avant-gardes européennes 153
17. L’avant-garde bulgare de l’entre-deux-guerres comme exemple de l’«autre Europe» 161
18. History or Europe: Images of Europe and Defense of Aesthetic Innovation in Post-1918 Poland 181
19. Ästhetische Moderne und totalitäres Anti-Europa: der spanische Avantgardist Ernesto Giménez Caballero 195
20. Ezra Pound’s Fascist “Europa”: Toward the Pisan Cantos 210
21. Writing the Foundations of a Better World: The Role of Anglo-German Literary Exchange in the Reconstruction of Germany and the Construction of Europe, 1945-1949 229
22. Avant-Garde or Civil Service? Yves Klein, Werner Ruhnau and “The European Situation” 244
23. Tendencies and Identities
24. Discours internationaliste et conscience identitaire des échanges culturels : l’exemple belgo-allemand (Der Sturm, Résurrection) 267
25. Historizing Modern Art: The “Difficult” Names 283
26. The Insignia of Modernity and “le mouvement Apollinaire” 296
27. Okkultismus, Esoterik, Mystik und die Ikonographie des Unsichtbaren in der frühen mitteleuropäischen Avantgarde. Das Beispiel der Posener Gruppe Bunt und des Bauhausprofessors Lothar Schreyer 306
28. Apokalypse als Narrenspiel: Kurt Schwitters und die Mystik 328
29. Messianic Endgames in German-Jewish Expressionist Literature 342
30. “Here I am at home – here I am in a foreign land”. Multilingualism, Modernism and (De)territorialization in the Works of the Finland-Swedish Writer Elmer Diktonius 359
31. Configurations « autographiques » dans Mémoires d’une liseuse de draps de Belen/Nelly Kaplan, ou comment déclencher le fou rire 373
32. Europe and Its Others
33. Artificial Africa in the European Avant-Garde: Marinetti and Tzara 391
34. Seeing African Sculpture: Carl Einstein’s “ethnographie du blanc” 408
35. Surrealism for the Ear: Paul Deharme’s Radio-Plays 423
36. Amauta, l’Europe et les avant-gardes 434
37. Carpentier’s Marvellous Real: Modernity and its Discontents in the Tropics 446
38. Europa, Amerika in transition (1927-1938): Literatursprachliche Interkulturalität und Transgressionen des Avantgardesubjekts 464
39. Travels of an Avant-Gardist, West-East-West: On Kawara 478
40. The Colour of Modernism: Colour-Form Experiments in Europe and Australia 494
41. Backmatter 515