The Aesthetics of Matter: Modernism, the Avant-Garde and Material Exchange

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The Aesthetics of Matter

Modernism, the Avant-Garde and Material Exchange

Edited by: Sarah Posman , Anne Reverseau , David Ayers , Sascha Bru and Benedikt Hjartarson

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2013

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Volume 3 | European Avant-Garde and Modernism Studies

About this book

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?

Author / Editor information

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

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
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About the Series – Sur la collection – Zur Buchreihe Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	ix
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1
Matter on the Move Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	3
Modernism Diffracted Picture Postcards from The Sturm Gallery and Walden Collection in Berlin Jessica Sjöholm Skrubbe Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	17
André Breton’s Autobiographical Cut-Ups Collages, Photographs, and Cinema Magali Nachtergael Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	29
Visual Music, a Missing Link? Jed Rasula Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	39
From Abstract Film to Op Art and Kinetic Art? Henryk Berlewi’s Mechano-Facture as a Transmedial Adaptation of Viking Eggeling’s Experimental Films Lidia Głuchowska Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	48
“hap-hap-hap-hap-happy clothes” Avant-Garde Experiments in/with Material(s) Emma West Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	67
The Poetic Materiality of Fascism on the British Stage Claire Warden Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	82
Dematerializing Verbal and Visual Matter Wassily Kandinsky’s Bitextuality Vladimir Feshchenko Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	94
Material Memory
Beyond Matter or Form Invalidating Subliminal Contradictions in the Aesthetics of Matter Andrea Sakoparnig Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	107
Upon Hearing James Joyce The Anna Livia Plurabelle Gramophone Disc (1929) Eleni Loukopoulou Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	118
Small Press Modernists Collaboration, Experimentation and the Limited Edition Book Lisa Otty Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	128
Plaster as a Matter of Memory Auguste Rodin and George Segal Tabea Schindler Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	144
Deconstructive Readings of the Avant-Garde Tradition in Post-Socialist Retro-Avant-Garde Theatre Tomaž Toporišič Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	158
The Materiality of a Contemporary Avant-Garde? Legacies of Surrealist Collage in Contemporary Art Camilla Skovbjerg Paldam Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	167
Spaces and Places
Reproducing the Avant-Garde The Art of Modernist Magazines Lori Cole Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	183
Bedeutungsveränderung und Kanonisierung des deutschen Expressionismus in den USA Gregor Langfeld Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	194
Expressionism, Fiction and Intermediality in Nordic Modernism Gunilla Hermansson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	207
Materiality and Dematerialization in Paul Neagu’s Work Ileana Pintilie Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	221
La maison d’artiste en portrait, manifeste et sanctuaire L’exemple de Fernand Khnopff Clément Dessy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	235
Liquid Modernity and the Concrete City Ford Madox Ford and Virginia Woolf Eveline Kilian Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	249
Bodies and Sensoria
To “Feel Breathing” Duchamp and the Immaterial Aesthetics of Scent Jim Drobnick Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	263
Synthesis Instead of Analysis Avant-Garde Eat Art and the Cultural Dimensions of Taste Christiane Heibach Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	277
Lygia Clark, the Paris Years The Body as Medium and Material Susan Best Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	292
Les matérialités à l’oeuvre dans la « poésie élémentaire » de Julien Blaine Gaëlle Théval Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	302
Corps, que me veux-tu? Embodiment and Visuality in Post-1950 Music Pavlos Antoniadis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	319
Subjectivities
M/Paternal Meanings in the Neo-Avant-Garde Agata Jakubowska Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	335
Raoul Hausmann et le montage de matériau textuel : Hylé I Hélène Thiérard Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	347
Georges Hugnet’s Surrealist Monsters and Women Cosana Eram Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	359
From Material Meaningless to Poetics of Potentiality The Religious Dimension of Lettrist Visual Poetry Sami Sjöberg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	370
A “Dance of Gestures” Hyperdialectic in Gertrude Stein’s Compositions Ariane Mildenberg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	380
Conceptual Frames of Life Tania Ørum Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	396
Passage du sujet dans la « matière mentale » surréaliste Claire Leydenbach Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	411
List of Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	423
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	425

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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

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Scholars of Literary and Cultural History; Art Historians

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