The European Avant Garde

Author : Sascha Bru
Publisher : EUP
ISBN 13 : 9780748695911
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The European Avant-Gardes, 1905-1935 written by Sascha Bru and published by EUP. This book was released on 2018-09-06 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The works of the classic European avant-gardes (cubism, futurism, expressionism, Dadaism, constructivism and many other -isms) today still strike many students of modernism as strange or incomprehensible. Is this art? Do we have to take a sound poem seriously? How, at all. are we to read and interpret avant-garde works? And what on earth is the fourth dimension in physics that fascinated so many avant-gardists? This engaging introduction is designed to answer all these questions and more.

Author : Timothy O. Benson
Publisher : Mit Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Central European Avant-Gardes written by Timothy O. Benson and published by Mit Press. This book was released on 2002-03 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents an interpretive overview of the complex webs of interaction among the artists and intellectuals of early 20th-century Central Europe.

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004450033
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sport and the European Avant-Garde (1900-1945) written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-02-07 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays assesses the significance of sport for the European avant-garde in the first half of the 20th century from an international and interdisciplinary perspective. It shows the extent to which avant-garde art and culture was shaped by the dynamic encounter with modern sports.

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004449418
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book European Avant-Garde written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-12-07 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of critical essays is designed to lay the foundations for a new theory of the European avant-garde. It starts from the assumption that not one all-embracing intention of all avant-garde movements - i.e. the intention of “reintegrating art into the practice of life” (Peter Bürger) - but the challenge of new cultural technologies, in particular photography and cinema, constitutes the main driving force of the formation and further development of the avant-garde. This approach permits to establish a theoretical framework that takes into account the diversity of artistic aims and directions of the various art movements and encourages a wide and open exploration of the multifaceted and often contradictory nature of the great variety of avant-gardist innovations. Following the theoretical foundation of the new approach, individual contributions concentrate on a diverse range of avant-gardist concepts, trends and manifestations from cubist painting and the literary work of Apollinaire and Gertrude Stein to the screeching voices of futurism, dadaist photomontage and film, surrealist photographs and sculptures and neo-avant-gardist theories as developed by the French group OuLiPo. The volume closes with new insights gained from placing the avant-garde in the contexts of literary institutions and psychoanalytical and sociological concepts. The main body of the volume is based on presentations and discussions of a three-day research seminar held at Yale University, New Haven, in February 2000. The research group formed on this occasion will continue with its efforts to elaborate a new theory of the avant-garde in the coming years.

Author : Dietrich (editor) Scheunemann
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9789042012042
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book European Avant-garde written by Dietrich (editor) Scheunemann and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2000 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of critical essays is designed to lay the foundations for a new theory of the European avant-garde. It starts from the assumption that not one all-embracing intention of all avant-garde movements - i.e. the intention of "reintegrating art into the practice of life" (Peter Bürger) - but the challenge of new cultural technologies, in particular photography and cinema, constitutes the main driving force of the formation and further development of the avant-garde. This approach permits to establish a theoretical framework that takes into account the diversity of artistic aims and directions of the various art movements and encourages a wide and open exploration of the multifaceted and often contradictory nature of the great variety of avant-gardist innovations. Following the theoretical foundation of the new approach, individual contributions concentrate on a diverse range of avant-gardist concepts, trends and manifestations from cubist painting and the literary work of Apollinaire and Gertrude Stein to the screeching voices of futurism, dadaist photomontage and film, surrealist photographs and sculptures and neo-avant-gardist theories as developed by the French group OuLiPo. The volume closes with new insights gained from placing the avant-garde in the contexts of literary institutions and psychoanalytical and sociological concepts. The main body of the volume is based on presentations and discussions of a three-day research seminar held at Yale University, New Haven, in February 2000. The research group formed on this occasion will continue with its efforts to elaborate a new theory of the avant-garde in the coming years.

Author : Sascha Bru
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110217716
Total Pages : 547 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Europa! Europa? written by Sascha Bru and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2009 with total page 547 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biographical note: Sascha Bru, Genth University, Belgium; Peter Nicholls, University of Sussex, UK.

Author : British Library
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Breaking the Rules written by British Library and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published on the occasion of the exhibition held at the British Library, Nov. 9, 2007-Mar. 30, 2008.

Author : Malte Hagener
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
ISBN 13 : 9053569618
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Moving Forward, Looking Back written by Malte Hagener and published by Amsterdam University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, the first full critical overview of the film avant-garde, ushers in a new approach—and in the process creates its own subject. While many books have studied particular aspects of the European film avant-garde of the 1920s and 1930s, Moving Forward, Looking Back provides a much-needed summary of the theory and practice of the movement, while also emphasizing aspects of the period that have been overlooked. Arguing that a European perspective is the only way to understand the transnational movement, the book also pioneers a new approach to the alternative cinema network that sustained the avant-garde, paying particular attention to the emergence of film culture as visible in screening clubs, film festivals, and archives. It will be essential to anyone interested in the influential movement and the film culture it created.

Author : Malcolm Turvey
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262525119
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Filming of Modern Life written by Malcolm Turvey and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In the 1920s, the European avant-garde embraced the cinema, experimenting with the medium in radical ways. Painters including Hans Richter and Fernand Leger as well as filmmakers belonging to such avant-garde movements as Dada and surrealism made some of the most enduring and fascinating films in the history of cinema. In The Filming of Modern Life, Malcolm Turvey examines five films from the avant-garde canon and the complex, sometimes contradictory, attitudes toward modernity they express: Rhythm 21 (Hans Richter, 1921), Ballet mecanique (Dudley Murphy and Fernand Léger, 1924), Entr'acte (Francis Picabia and René Clair, 1924), Un chien Andalou (Salvador Dali and Luis Buñuel, 1929), and Man with a Movie Camera (Dziga Vertov, 1929). All exemplify major trends within European avant-garde cinema of the time, from abstract animation to "cinema pur."

Author : Walter L. Adamson
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520252705
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Embattled Avant-Gardes written by Walter L. Adamson and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2007-11-06 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Adamson leads his readers through intricate debates with care and skill. Even the non-specialist reader will come away with an understanding of the stakes in modernist studies."—Mary Gluck, author of Popular Bohemia: Modernism and Urban Culture in Nineteenth-Century Paris "No serious student of the European avant-garde in the early twentieth century will be able to overlook this subtle and impassioned attempt to rethink its history: its far-reaching ambitions and its strategies for achieving them, its successes and its failures. Because of Adamson's distinctive perspective and the breadth of his research, I persistently found myself being forced to rethink the history of the European avant-garde and question some of my own assumptions and conclusions."—Robert Wohl, author of The Spectacle of Flight: Aviation and the Western Imagination, 1920-1950