This article examines the role of the so-called Novo Mesto Spring movement, particularly the role of the poet Anton Podbevšek, on the dynamics of Slovenian avant-garde art in the first decade after ...the World War I. It outlines Podbevšek's controversial rise to celebrity status soon after his arrival in Ljubljana in 1920, his extraordinary influence on contemporary young poets, reflected in the literary contributions to the first issue of the magazine Trije labodje (The Three Swans, 1922), and, finally, analyzes Podbevšek's irrevocable decline after 1925. Podbevšek's (self)destructive behavior in this period proves to be among the important reasons why the attempt to consolidate Slovenian historical avant-garde art, which might have taken place around The Three Swans, failed.
Članek obravnava značilnosti umetnosti in literature v obdobju ruskega srebrnega veka s posebnim poudarkom na specifikah simbolistične in avantgardistične poetike in estetike. Ugotavlja, v kolikšni ...meri slednja - novotarska gibanja avantgarde - zares prelamljajo s simbolistično tradicijo in v kolikšni meri gre v njunem odnosu za kontinuiteto in zaostritev skupnih literarno-umetniških in svetovno-nazorskih specifik, povezanih s tradicijo romantizma, na katerih sta osnovana oba modernistična pojava z začetka 20. stoletja.
Prispevek gradi pojmovno mrežo zaumnega jezika in poskuša odgovoriti na vprašanji, ali je zaumni jezik sploh jezik (komunikativnost zauma) in kaj nam sporoča tisto, kar je "za" umom (informacija ...zauma). Predoktobrska avantgarda je zavrgla idejo umetniškega proizvajanja kot mehanične imitacije in osvobodila literaturo (in literarno vedo) od zunajliterarnih elementov zgodovine in kulture. Sočasno se je človek poglabljal v lastno psiho, da bi prikazal univerzalno morfologijo subjektivnega izkustva. Zaum prepoznavamo kot eno izmed tehnologij zgodnje ruske avantgarde za predrugačenje človekovega govora in mišljenja, ki bi posledično prerodilo celotno kulturo.
This collection of critical essays explores new approaches to the study of avant-garde literature and art, film and architecture. It offers a theoretical framework that avoids narrowly defined ...notions of the avant-garde. It takes into account the diversity of artistic aims and directions of the various avant-garde movements and encourages a wide and open exploration of the multifaceted and often contradictory nature of the great variety of avant-gardist innovations. Individual essays concentrate on cubist collage and dadaist photomontage, on abstract painting by members of the Dutch group De Stijl, on verbal chemistry and dadaist poetry and on body art from futurism to surrealism. In addition, the collection wishes to open up the discussion of the avant-garde to a thorough investigation of neo-avant-garde activities in the 1950s and 1960s. For decades the appreciation of neo-avant-garde art and literature, film and architecture suffered from a general and all-inclusive rebuke. This volume is designed to contribute to a breakthrough towards a more competent and more precise investigation of this research field. Contributions include a discussion of Warhol's multiples as well as Duchamp's editioned readymades, forms of concrete and digital poetry as well as the architectural "Non-Plan". The main body of the volume is based on presentations and discussions of a three-day research seminar held at the University of Edinburgh in September 2002. The research group formed around the Avant-Garde Project at Edinburgh will continue with its efforts to elaborate a new theory of the avant-garde in the coming years.
The two-volume work Modernism has been awarded the prestigious 2008 MSA Book Prize! Modernism has constituted one of the most prominent fields of literary studies for decades. While it was perhaps ...temporarily overshadowed by postmodernism, recent years have seen a resurgence of interest in modernism on both sides of the Atlantic. These volumes respond to a need for a collective and multifarious view of literary modernism in various genres, locations, and languages. Asking and responding to a wealth of theoretical, aesthetic, and historical questions, 65 scholars from several countries test the usefulness of the concept of modernism as they probe a variety of contexts, from individual texts to national literatures, from specific critical issues to broad cross-cultural concerns. While the chief emphasis of these volumes is on literary modernism, literature is seen as entering into diverse cultural and social contexts. These range from inter-art conjunctions to philosophical, environmental, urban, and political domains, including issues of race and space, gender and fashion, popular culture and trauma, science and exile, all of which have an urgent bearing on the poetics of modernity.
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