Decentring the avant-garde /

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 h...

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Online Access:Electronic book from EBSCO
Other Authors: Bäckström, Per., Hjartarson, Benedikt.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published:Amsterdam, NL : Editions Rodopi, 2014.
Series:Avant garde critical studies ; 30.
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Rethinking the Topography of the InternationalAvant-Garde. Introduction; Rethinking the Dichotomy of Centre-Periphery; Modern Global Art and Its Discontents; Romantic Peripheries. The Dynamics of Enlightenmentand Romanticism in East-Central Europe; Peculiarities in the Use of the ConceptsCentre and Periphery in Avant-Garde Strategies; Postcolonial Avant-Gardes and the World Systemof 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-GardeClaiming Dada for the French; Migration of Images. Private Collections ofModernism and Avant-Garde and the Searchfor 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-GardeContributors; Index.