Popular avant-garde / edited by Renée M. Silverman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Silverman, Renée M.

Series:

Avant garde critical studies ; 25.

Avant-garde critical studies ; 25

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Avant-garde (Aesthetics).

Popular culture.

Physical Description:

324 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; New York, NY : Rodopi, 2010.

Contents:

The avant-garde is popular (again) / Renée M. Silverman

"Not reactionary, just late" : the case for Ariano Suassuna as Brazilian modernist / Kirsten Ernst

This impossible Toyen / Malynne Sternstein

Huidobro, Cagliostro : demiurge as mage conjuring a metaphor for the avant-garde / Alexander Starkweather Fobes

Revisiting the vanguard : Duchamp in Buenos Aires / Lori Cole

Duende and modernism : Hart Crane's and Federico García Lorca's variations on rhythm and sound /Esther Sánchez-Pardo

A revolution of shadows : culture and representation in early-twentieth-century Mexico / R. Hernández Rodríguez

Giménez Caballero's fractured fairy tale : "El redentor mal parido" (1926) / Maria T. Pao

"A new dictionary of gestures" : Chaplin's "The rink" and Ricciotto Canudo's "Skating rink" / Christopher Townsend

A quick read(ies) : speed and formula in Bob Brown's Pulp fiction and avant-garde machines / Craig Saper

Reading Freire in London : Jo Spence's photographs between popular and avant-garde / Siona Wilson

Touching pasts "In the shadow of no towers" : 9/11 and Art Spiegelman's comix of memory /Jennifer Cho

From avant-garde to para-garde : "The truth about Marika" / Antti Salminen

Franciszka Themerson's "Ubu comic strip" : autography, caricature, and the avant garde / Barnaby Dicker

In search of a people's art : the divergent positions of Jorge Oteiza and David Alfaro Siqueiros / Marina Pérez de Mendiola

Venezuelan avant-garde : María Calcaño's erotic poetry / Giovanna Montenegro

Popular anthropology : dance, race, and Katherine Dunham / Kirsten Strom

Tom Zé's unsong and the fate of the Tropicália movement / Fabio Akcelrud Durão and José Adriano Fenerick.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9042031603

9789042031609

9789042031616

9042031611

OCLC:

671693357