Dada, Carnival and Revolution

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. About the Series / Sur la collection / Zur Buchreihe V
3. Contents IX
4. Introduction
5. Given the Popular 3
6. Terms and Canons
7. “The Madness of the Unexpected”: Duchamp's Readymades and the Survival of “High” Art 13
8. Instrument of Inspiration: High/Low Illusions in British Experimental Music and After 33
9. English Rebels in Art Circles: The New Age in its Elitist and Populist Dimension 44
10. Kinesthetic Modernism? Rhythms, Bodies and Motion across the Great Divide 57
11. Art, Nation and Political Discourse 69
12. Culture en quête de repères 84
13. Folklore
14. Dada, Carnival and Revolution 99
15. Spuren der Volksdichtung in der ungarischen Avantgardeliteratur 115
16. Musical Boxes: The Impersonal Avant-Garde Poem, Everyday Language and Popular Song 129
17. What Did They Need Jazz For? Jazz Music in Polish Interwar Poetry 142
18. Der junge Borges und die ultraistische Avantgarde. Das Populäre als Taktik 160
19. The Theatre of Ramón del Valle-Inclán: Between Modernism and the Popular Imagination 175
20. The Everyday
21. Sitting Pretty: Modernism and the Municipal Chair in the Photographs of André Kertész and Robert Doisneau 191
22. Everyday Life in André Breton's Trilogy. Nadja, Vases Communicants and L'Amour fou 205
23. Entre mime et possession: récits surréalistes et fictions populaires 215
24. The Blood of a Poet: Cocteau, Surrealism and the Politics of the Vulgar 227
25. “Broken Clouds – also by Instalments”: Mediating Art and the Everyday, the High and the Low in the Finnish Literary Avant-Garde of the 1960s 240
26. The “Abakans” and the Feminist Revolution 253
27. A Glossier Shade of Brown: Imi Knoebel's Raum 19 266
28. Commerce
29. Selling Dada: New York Dada (1921) and Its Dialogue with the European Avant-Garde 281
30. Wyndham Lewis and the Inter-War Popular Novel: Potboilers and Gunman Bestsellers 293
31. Le Douanier Rousseau, Fantômas & Cie: La culture populaire, ressort majeur des Soirées de Paris 306
32. Between the Old and the New: The Surrealist Outmoded as a Radical Third Term 321
33. „The Hidden Network of the Avant-Garde”: der farbige Werbefilm als eine zentraleuropäische Erfindung? 338
34. Media
35. Lessons from the Press: Picasso and Mass Print Media, 1911-37 363
36. Film und Filmprojekte in der Wiener Avant-Garde Zeitschrift Ma (1920-25) 379
37. „Produktion – Reproduktion”: Echos von László Moholy-Nagys Medientheorie in der Geschichte von Film und Medienkunst 394
38. Modernism in the Ether: Middlebrow Perspectives on European Literature in Flemish Radio Talks (1936-37) 410
39. A Second Avant-Garde without a First: Greek Avant-Garde Artists in the 1960s and 1970s 425
40. Mass Media Avant-Garde: Dislocating the Hi/Lo in the Swedish 1960s 445
41. A Tentative Embrace. Superstudio's New Media Nomads 458
42. Index 471