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The Aesthetics of Matter

Modernism, the Avant-Garde and Material Exchange
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Published/Copyright: 2013
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European Avant-Garde and Modernism Studies

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It has often been argued that the arrival of the early-20th-century avant-gardes and modernisms coincided with an in-depth exploration of the materiality of art and writing. The European historical avant-gardes and modernisms excelled in their attempts to establish the specificity of media and art forms as well as in experimenting with the hybridity of the materials of their multiple disciplines. This third volume of the series European Avant-Garde and Modernism Studies sheds light on the full range and import of this aspect in avant-garde and modernist aesthetics across all art forms and throughout the 19th and 20th centuries.

The book’s contributions, written by experts from some 20 countries, seek to answer the following questions:

  • What sort of objects and material, works and media help us to properly grasp the avant-garde and modernist “aesthetics of matter”?
  • How were affects, emotions and sensory and bodily experiences transferred and transformed in the experiment with matter?
  • How were “immaterial” things such as concepts of time changed in this aesthetic moment?
  • What “material meanings” were disseminated in the cultural transfer and translation of objects?
  • How did subsequent avant-gardes deal with the “aesthetics of matter” in their response to historical predecessors?

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S. Posman, Ghent, A. Reverseau and S. Bru, Leuven, D. Ayers, Canterbury, and B. Hjartarson, Reykjavik.

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    Contents

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    About the Series – Sur la collection – Zur Buchreihe

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    Introduction

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    Matter on the Move

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    Modernism Diffracted

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    Jessica Sjöholm Skrubbe
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    André Breton’s Autobiographical Cut-Ups

    29
    Magali Nachtergael
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    Visual Music, a Missing Link?

    39
    Jed Rasula
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    From Abstract Film to Op Art and Kinetic Art?

    48
    Lidia Głuchowska
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    “hap-hap-hap-hap-happy clothes” Avant-Garde Experiments in/with Material(s)

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    Emma West
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    The Poetic Materiality of Fascism on the British Stage

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    Claire Warden
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    Dematerializing Verbal and Visual Matter

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    Vladimir Feshchenko
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  • Material Memory
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    Beyond Matter or Form

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    Andrea Sakoparnig
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    Upon Hearing James Joyce

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    Eleni Loukopoulou
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    Small Press Modernists

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    Lisa Otty
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    Plaster as a Matter of Memory

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    Tabea Schindler
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    Deconstructive Readings of the Avant-Garde Tradition in Post-Socialist Retro-Avant-Garde Theatre

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    Tomaž Toporišič
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    The Materiality of a Contemporary Avant-Garde?

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    Camilla Skovbjerg Paldam
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  • Spaces and Places
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    Reproducing the Avant-Garde

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    Lori Cole
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    Bedeutungsveränderung und Kanonisierung des deutschen Expressionismus in den USA

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    Gregor Langfeld
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    Expressionism, Fiction and Intermediality in Nordic Modernism

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    Gunilla Hermansson
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    Materiality and Dematerialization in Paul Neagu’s Work

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    Ileana Pintilie
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    La maison d’artiste en portrait, manifeste et sanctuaire

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    Clément Dessy
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    Liquid Modernity and the Concrete City

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    Eveline Kilian
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  • Bodies and Sensoria
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    To “Feel Breathing”

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    Jim Drobnick
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    Synthesis Instead of Analysis

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    Christiane Heibach
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    Lygia Clark, the Paris Years

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    Susan Best
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    Les matérialités à l’oeuvre dans la « poésie élémentaire » de Julien Blaine

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    Gaëlle Théval
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    Corps, que me veux-tu?

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    Pavlos Antoniadis
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  • Subjectivities
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    M/Paternal Meanings in the Neo-Avant-Garde

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    Agata Jakubowska
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    Raoul Hausmann et le montage de matériau textuel : Hylé I

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    Hélène Thiérard
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    Georges Hugnet’s Surrealist Monsters and Women

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    Cosana Eram
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    From Material Meaningless to Poetics of Potentiality

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    Sami Sjöberg
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    A “Dance of Gestures”

    380
    Ariane Mildenberg
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    Conceptual Frames of Life

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    Tania Ørum
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    Passage du sujet dans la « matière mentale » surréaliste

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    Claire Leydenbach
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    List of Contributors

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    Index

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Publishing information
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
eBook published on:
October 29, 2013
eBook ISBN:
9783110317534
Hardcover published on:
October 17, 2013
Hardcover ISBN:
9783110317374
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
Front matter:
12
Main content:
435
Illustrations:
72
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110317534
eBook ISBN: 9783110317534
Hardcover ISBN: 9783110317374
Keywords for this book
Avant-garde; modernism; materiality
Audience(s) for this book
Scholars of Literary and Cultural History; Art Historians
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