Matter on the Move

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. About the Series – Sur la collection – Zur Buchreihe ix
4. Introduction 1
5. Matter on the Move 3
6. Modernism Diffracted 17
7. André Breton’s Autobiographical Cut-Ups 29
8. Visual Music, a Missing Link? 39
9. From Abstract Film to Op Art and Kinetic Art? 48
10. “hap-hap-hap-hap-happy clothes” Avant-Garde Experiments in/with Material(s) 67
11. The Poetic Materiality of Fascism on the British Stage 82
12. Dematerializing Verbal and Visual Matter 94
13. Material Memory
14. Beyond Matter or Form 107
15. Upon Hearing James Joyce 118
16. Small Press Modernists 128
17. Plaster as a Matter of Memory 144
18. Deconstructive Readings of the Avant-Garde Tradition in Post-Socialist Retro-Avant-Garde Theatre 158
19. The Materiality of a Contemporary Avant-Garde? 167
20. Spaces and Places
21. Reproducing the Avant-Garde 183
22. Bedeutungsveränderung und Kanonisierung des deutschen Expressionismus in den USA 194
23. Expressionism, Fiction and Intermediality in Nordic Modernism 207
24. Materiality and Dematerialization in Paul Neagu’s Work 221
25. La maison d’artiste en portrait, manifeste et sanctuaire 235
26. Liquid Modernity and the Concrete City 249
27. Bodies and Sensoria
28. To “Feel Breathing” 263
29. Synthesis Instead of Analysis 277
30. Lygia Clark, the Paris Years 292
31. Les matérialités à l’oeuvre dans la « poésie élémentaire » de Julien Blaine 302
32. Corps, que me veux-tu? 319
33. Subjectivities
34. M/Paternal Meanings in the Neo-Avant-Garde 335
35. Raoul Hausmann et le montage de matériau textuel : Hylé I 347
36. Georges Hugnet’s Surrealist Monsters and Women 359
37. From Material Meaningless to Poetics of Potentiality 370
38. A “Dance of Gestures” 380
39. Conceptual Frames of Life 396
40. Passage du sujet dans la « matière mentale » surréaliste 411
41. List of Contributors 423
42. Index 425