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Decentring the Avant-Garde.

Bäckström, Per.

Decentring the Avant-Garde.

Bäckström, Per.

9789401210379

Bäckström, Per.

1 online resource (328 pages)

Avant-Garde Critical Studies ; v.30

Avant-Garde Critical Studies

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Rethinking the Topography of the International Avant-Garde. Introduction -- Rethinking the Dichotomy of Centre-Periphery -- Modern Global Art and Its Discontents -- Romantic Peripheries. The Dynamics of Enlightenment and Romanticism in East-Central Europe -- Peculiarities in the Use of the Concepts Centre and Periphery in Avant-Garde Strategies -- Postcolonial Avant-Gardes and the World System of Modernity / Coloniality -- Avant-Garde Art in Post-Communist Central Europe -- Impact of the Periphery on the Centre -- Mushrooms, Ant Paths and Tactics. The Topography of the European Film Avant-Garde -- Claiming Dada for the French -- Migration of Images. Private Collections of Modernism and Avant-Garde and the Search for Cubism in Eastern Europe -- Worlds Apart? The Japan-Europe Historical Avant-Garde Relationship -- Central Role(s) of the Periphery -- "An Eccentric Homespun Avant-Gardist". Hugh MacDiarmid, 'Northern' Radicalism, and the Scottish Renaissance Movement -- Sami Artist Group 1978-1983. Otherness or Avant-Garde? -- Anationalism and the Search for a Universal Language. Esperantism and the European Avant-Garde -- Revising the Aporias of the Avant-Garde -- Contributors -- Index.

Decentring the Avant-Garde presents a collection of articles dealing with the topography of the avant-garde. The focus is on different responses to avant-garde aesthetics in regions traditionally depicted as cultural, geographical and linguistic peripheries. Avant-garde activities in the periphery have to date mostly been described in terms of a passive reception of new artistic trends and currents originating in cultural centres such as Paris or Berlin. Contesting this traditional view, Decentring the Avant-Garde highlights the importance of analysing the avant-garde in the periphery in terms of an active appropriation of avant-garde aesthetics within different cultural, ideological and historical settings. A broad collection of case studies discusses the activities of movements and artists in various regions in Europe and beyond. The result is a new topographical model of the international avant-garde and its cultural practices.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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