Regarding the popular : modernism, the avant-garde, and high and low culture / edited by Sascha Bru ... [et al.] ; with the editorial assistance of Leslie A. Barnes, Gareth Farmer and Matthias Somers.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bru, Sascha.

Series:

European avant-garde and modernism studies ; v. 2.

European avant-garde and modernism studies = Etudes sur l'avant-garde et le modernisme en Europe = Studien zur Europäischen avantgarde und moderne ; v. 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Modernism (Art).

Arts, Modern--20th century.

Arts, Modern.

Art and popular culture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (500 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Regarding the Popular charts the complex relationship between the avant-gardes and modernisms on the one hand and popular culture on the other. Covering (neo-)avant-gardists and modernists from various European countries, this second volume in the series European Avant-Garde and Modernism Studies explores the nature of so-called "low" culture, dealing with aspects as diverse as the everyday and the folkloric. Regarding the Popular charts the many ways in which the allegedly "high" modernists and avant-gardists looked at and represented the "low". As such, this book will appeal to all those wit

Contents:

Front matter

About the Series / Sur la collection / Zur Buchreihe

Contents

Introduction

Given the Popular

Terms and Canons

"The Madness of the Unexpected": Duchamp's Ready mades and the Survival of "High" Art / Perloff, Marjorie

Instrument of Inspiration: High/Low Illusions in British Experimental Music and After / Paterson, Alexis

English Rebels in Art Circles: The New Age in its Elitist and Populist Dimension / Buchowska, Dominika

Kinesthetic Modernism? Rhythms, Bodies and Motion across the Great Divide / Sánchez-Pardo, Esther

Art, Nation and Political Discourse / Ayers, David

Culture en quête de repères / Genin, Christophe

Folklore

Dada, Carnival and Revolution / Lewer, Debbie

Spuren der Volksdichtung in der ungarischen Avantgardeliteratur

Musical Boxes: The Impersonal Avant-Garde Poem, Everyday Language and Popular Song / Buelens, Geert

What Did They Need Jazz For? Jazz Music in Polish Interwar Poetry / Śniecikowska, Beata

Der junge Borges und die ultraistische Avantgarde. Das Populäre als Taktik / Samson, Regina

The Theatre of Ramón del Valle-Inclán: Between Modernism and the Popular Imagination / Welge, Jobst

The Everyday

Sitting Pretty: Modernism and the Municipal Chair in the Photographs of André Kertész and Robert Doisneau / Blinder, Caroline

Everyday Life in André Breton's Trilogy. Nadja, Vases Communicants and L'Amour fou / Asholt, Wolfgang

Entre mime et possession: récits surréalistes et fictions populaires / Rialland, Ivanne

The Blood of a Poet: Cocteau, Surrealism and the Politics of the Vulgar / Spiteri, Raymond

"Broken Clouds - also by Instalments": Mediating Art and the Everyday, the High and the Low in the Finnish Literary Avant-Garde of the 1960's / Veivo, Harri

The "Abakans" and the Feminist Revolution / Jakubowska, Agata

A Glossier Shade of Brown: Imi Knoebel's Raum 19 / Williams, Gregory H.

Commerce

Selling Dada: New York Dada (1921) and Its Dialogue with the European Avant-Garde / Hopkins, David

Wyndham Lewis and the Inter-War Popular Novel: Potboilers and Gunman Bestsellers / Burrells, Anna

Le Douanier Rousseau, Fantômas & Cie: La culture populaire, ressort majeur des Soirées de Paris / Dario, Maria

Between the Old and the New: The Surrealist Outmoded as a Radical Third Term / Susik, Abigail

"The Hidden Network of the Avant-Garde": der farbige Werbefilm als eine zentraleuropäische Erfindung? / Orosz, Márton

Media

Lessons from the Press: Picasso and Mass Print Media, 1911-37 / Angel, Sara J.

Film und Filmprojekte in der Wiener Avant-Garde Zeitschrift Ma (1920-25) / Kókai, Károly

"Produktion - Reproduktion": Echos von László Moholy-Nagys Medientheorie in der Geschichte von Film und Medienkunst / Jutz, Gabriele

Modernism in the Ether: Middlebrow Perspectives on European Literature in Flemish Radio Talks (1936-37) / Rymenants, Koen / Verstraeten, Pieter

A Second Avant-Garde without a First: Greek Avant-Garde Artists in the 1960's and 1970's / Hamalidi, Elena / Nikolopoulou, Maria / Walldén, Rea

Mass Media Avant-Garde: Dislocating the Hi/Lo in the Swedish 1960's / Olsson, Jesper

A Tentative Embrace. Superstudio's New Media Nomads / Elfline, Ross K.

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9783110274691

3110274698

OCLC:

979970993