The aesthetics of matter : modernism, the avant-garde and material exchange / edited by Sarah Posman [et al.].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Posman, Sarah.

Series:

European avant-garde and modernism studies ; 3.

European avant-garde and modernism studies ; 3

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Avant-garde (Aesthetics).

Modernism (Aesthetics).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (448 pages)

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, [2013]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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?

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

About the Series - Sur la collection - Zur Buchreihe

Introduction

Matter on the Move

Modernism Diffracted / Skrubbe, Jessica Sjöholm

André Breton's Autobiographical Cut-Ups / Nachtergael, Magali

Visual Music, a Missing Link? / Rasula, Jed

From Abstract Film to Op Art and Kinetic Art? / Głuchowska, Lidia

"hap-hap-hap-hap-happy clothes" Avant-Garde Experiments in/with Material(s) / West, Emma

The Poetic Materiality of Fascism on the British Stage / Warden, Claire

Dematerializing Verbal and Visual Matter / Feshchenko, Vladimir

Material Memory

Beyond Matter or Form / Sakoparnig, Andrea

Upon Hearing James Joyce / Loukopoulou, Eleni

Small Press Modernists / Otty, Lisa

Plaster as a Matter of Memory / Schindler, Tabea

Deconstructive Readings of the Avant-Garde Tradition in Post-Socialist Retro-Avant-Garde Theatre / Toporišič, Tomaž

The Materiality of a Contemporary Avant-Garde? / Paldam, Camilla Skovbjerg

Spaces and Places

Reproducing the Avant-Garde / Cole, Lori

Bedeutungsveränderung und Kanonisierung des deutschen Expressionismus in den USA / Langfeld, Gregor

Expressionism, Fiction and Intermediality in Nordic Modernism / Hermansson, Gunilla

Materiality and Dematerialization in Paul Neagu's Work / Pintilie, Ileana

La maison d'artiste en portrait, manifeste et sanctuaire / Dessy, Clément

Liquid Modernity and the Concrete City / Kilian, Eveline

Bodies and Sensoria

To "Feel Breathing" / Drobnick, Jim

Synthesis Instead of Analysis / Heibach, Christiane

Lygia Clark, the Paris Years / Best, Susan

Les matérialités à l'oeuvre dans la « poésie élémentaire » de Julien Blaine / Théval, Gaëlle

Corps, que me veux-tu? / Antoniadis, Pavlos

Subjectivities

M/Paternal Meanings in the Neo-Avant-Garde / Jakubowska, Agata

Raoul Hausmann et le montage de matériau textuel : Hylé I / Thiérard, Hélène

Georges Hugnet's Surrealist Monsters and Women / Eram, Cosana

From Material Meaningless to Poetics of Potentiality / Sjöberg, Sami

A "Dance of Gestures" / Mildenberg, Ariane

Conceptual Frames of Life / Ørum, Tania

Passage du sujet dans la « matière mentale » surréaliste / Leydenbach, Claire

List of Contributors

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed December 24, 2013).

ISBN:

9783110317534

3110317532

OCLC:

862940110