Modernism in Kyiv : Jubilant Experimentation / Irena Makaryk, Virlana Tkacz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Makaryk, Irena, author.

Tkacz, Virlana, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kurbas, Lesʹ, 1887-1937--Criticism and interpretation.

Modernism (Art)--Ukraine--Kyïv.

Arts, Ukrainian--Ukraine--Kyïv--20th century.

Theater--Ukraine--Kyïv--History--20th century.

Kyïv (Ukraine)--Intellectual life--20th century.

Kyïv (Ukraine)--History--20th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (667 p.)

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2017]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Until now a silent presence in Western accounts of the cultural topography of modernism, multicultural Kyiv is here revealed in its historical, intellectual, and artistic complexity. Excerpts taken from the works of artists, writers, and critics as well as the numerous illustrations help give life to the exciting creativity of this period. The first book-length examination of this subject, Modernism in Kyiv is a breakthrough accomplishment that will become a standard volume in the field. --Book Jacket.

The study of modernism has been largely focused on Western cultural centres such as Paris, Vienna, London, and New York. Extravagantly illustrated with over 300 photos and reproductions, Modernism in Kyiv demonstrates that the Ukrainian capital was a major centre of performing and visual arts as well as literary and cultural activity. While arguing that Kyiv's modernist impulse is most prominently displayed in the experimental work of Les Kurbas, one of the masters of the early Soviet stage, the contributors also examine the history of the city and the artistic production of diverse groups including Ukrainians, Russians, Jews, and Poles.

M̀odernism in Kyiv restores the multicultural city of Kyiv to its rightful position as a major player in the dialogue and cross-pollination of ideas occurring between important modernist figures in centres such as Paris, New York, London, and Vienna. Engaging and highly readable, this collection is impressive in its scope, depth, and breadth.'

Contents:

Introduction : Reconnecting Modernisms / Irena R. Makaryk

Lesʹ Kurbas Foreword to Victor Auburtin, Art Is Dying (excerpt). Modernism in Kyiv : Jubilant Experimentation / Irena R. Makaryk ; 'How beautiful Kyiv is' (diary excerpt) / Serhy Yefremov

'A Theatrical Mecca' : The Stages of Kyiv in 1907 / Mayhill C. Fowler ; 'Dawn' / Pavlo Tychyna

'Special and Bewildering' : A Portrait of Late-Imperial and Early Soviet Kyiv / Michael F. Hamm ; Legend [of] Sweet Michael and the Golden Gates

Three Novels, Three Cities / Taras Koznarsky

Tsar Nicholas II and Lev Trotsky On Film

Film in Kyiv, 1910-1916 / Oleh Sydor-Hybelynda

Les Kurbas On Rhythm (diary excerpt)

In the Epicentre of Abstraction : Kyiv during the Time of Kurbas / Dmytro Horbachov

Volodymyr Koriak 'To the Isles Electric!' (excerpt)

The Yiddish Kultur-Lige Gennady Estraikh

Pavlo Tychyna 'You Tell Me'

Politics and the Ukrainian Avant-garde / Myroslav Shkandrij

Les Kurbas On Art (Diary excerpt)

Kyiv's Multicultural Theatrical Life, 1917-1926 / Hanna Veselovska

'Pavlo Tychyna 'In the Orchestra of the Cosmos' (excerpt)

Towards a New Vision of Theatre : Les Kurbas's Work at the Young Theatre in Kyiv / Virlana Tkacz

Serge Lifar On Movement (excerpt)

The Choreographic Avant-garde in Kyiv, 1916-1921 : Bronislava Nijinska and Her Ecole de Mouvement / Maria Ratanova

Pavlo Tychyna 'The Highest Power'

Kyiv, the 1920s, and Modernism in Music / Dagmara Turchyn-Duvirak

Pavlo Tychyna 'Lull' (excerpt)

Music in the Theatre of Les Kurbas / Yana Leonenkopart

Bronislava Nijinska On the Theatre (notebook excerpt)

Les Kurbas's Early Work at the Berezil : From Bodies in Motion to Performing the Invisible / Virlana Tkacz

Vladimir Lenin 'Why worship the new?'

Abstraction and Ukrainian Futurist Literature / Oleh S. Ilnytzkyj

Kliment Redko 'In sight of the sun' (autobiography excerpt)

The Graphics Arts : From Page Design to Theatre / Myroslava M. Mudrak

Pavlo Tychyna 'Rhythm'

Dissecting Time/Space : The Scottish Play and the New Technology of Film / Irena R. Makaryk

Natalka Bilotserkivets 'We'll not die in Paris'

On the World Stage : The Berezil in Paris and New York / Irena R. Makaryk

Serhiy Zhadan 'The End of Ukrainian Syllabotonic Verse'

Vsevolod Meyerhold and Les Kurbas / Beatrice Picon-Vallin with Veronika Gopko-Pereverzeva

Pericles 'Funeral Oration over the Athenian Dead' (excerpt)

Les Kurbas and the Spiritual Foundations of the Ukrainian Avant-garde / Nelli Kornienko

Les Kurbas 'Premonition' (excerpt).

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 27. Mrz 2018)

ISBN:

1-4426-9880-2

1-4426-8637-5

OCLC:

1011439978