Constructivism between the Reality and an Aesthetic Performance

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. About the Series – Sur la collection – Zur Buchreihe XI
4. Introduction
5. Realism(s) of the Avant-Garde: An Introduction 3
6. Modernist Realism?
7. Realismus – Avantgarde – Phantastik 13
8. Mário de Andrade: Modernism, Realism, and New Stories 29
9. Scientistic Magnetism and Hauntological Metarealism 43
10. Conditional-Realistic Constructivism or Constructivist New Realism 77
11. „Eine Verteidigung des Wirklichen“ 91
12. Fremde Formen – neue Sprache 107
13. Surpassing Realism?
14. Ähnlichkeit als Konzept des SurRealismus 123
15. Surreal Science and Scientific Surrealism 139
16. Toward the Conquest of (Another) Reality 153
17. D’un réalisme indiciaire : la revue Documents (1929–1930) 167
18. Spiegelung des Selbst: Giorgio de Chirico über Gustave Courbet 179
19. A Quest for a “New Man”: Bruno Schulz and Giorgio de Chirico 195
20. Zeichen der Doppelbödigkeit 209
21. When the Reality is Unreal: Camps, Towers and Internment 223
22. Media/Documenting the Real?
23. Le réalisme des appareils 247
24. The Inconceivable Reality 261
25. A Beautiful New World 279
26. The Real Reality: Notes on Boris Klinč and Photomontage in the USSR 299
27. Constructivism between the Reality and an Aesthetic Performance 311
28. Reality as Disguise: Tadeusz Kantor’s Happenings 331
29. The Cinema of Improvisation 343
30. Realist Turns/Politics of Realism?
31. Fernand Léger’s New Realism 363
32. Picasso vs. Fougeron 375
33. Whose Figuration? 391
34. The Use(s) of Realism in Spain: Politics and the Visual Arts in the Long Sixties 407
35. (Ir)Real Portugal 425
36. State-commission in Modern Times 439
37. Things/Thingness/Objectivity?
38. Unter dem Pflaster ist die Kanalisation 459
39. Modernistischer Realismus der Arbeiterbewegungsliteratur 473
40. Das Ich und die Dinge 487
41. “… this is without a doubt the most despicable barbarism one could attain” 499
42. “Everything Is Symbolical” 511
43. “Reism” in Slovenian Neo-Avant-Garde Literature and Art 525
44. Dinge als Akteure in (neo)avantgardistischen Texten 547
45. New Sincerity/New Openings in the Twenty-First Century?
46. Rewriting the Real – Dialogic Perspectives of Interventionist Strategies in Contemporary French Literature 561
47. Eine unzeitgemäße Zeitgenossenschaft? 575
48. Historiographies of Realism in the Work of Chto Delat? 591
49. Whither Realism? 603
50. List of Contributors 619
51. Index 621