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

• VerfasserIn: Makaryk, Irena,; Tkacz, Virlana,
• MitwirkendeR: Estraikh, Gennady,; Fowler, Mayhill C.,; Gopko-Pereverzeva, Veronika,; Hamm, Michael F.,; Horbachov, Dmytro,; Ilnytzkyj, Oleh S.,; Kornienko, Nelli,; Koznarsky, Taras,; Leonenko, Yana,; Makaryk, Irena R.,; Mudrak, Myroslava M.,; Picon-Vallin, Béatrice,; Ratanova, Maria,; Shkandrij, Myroslav,; Sydor-Hybelynda, Oleh,; Tkacz, Virlana,; Turchyn-Duvirak, Dagmara,; Veselovska, Hanna,; makaryk, Irena R.,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2017]; ©2010
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (680 p.)

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.Until now a silent presence in Western accounts of the cultural topography of modernism, multicultural Kyiv is here restored to 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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Permissions -- List of Illustrations -- A Note on Transliteration -- Introduction: Reconnecting Modernisms -- PART ONE KYIV: 'SPECIAL AND BEWILDERING' -- 1. Modernism in Kyiv: Jubilant Experimentation -- 2 'A Theatrical Mecca': The Stages of Kyiv in 1907 -- 3 'Special and Bewildering': A Portrait of Late-Imperial and Early Soviet Kyiv -- 4 Three Novels, Three Cities -- 5 Film in Kyiv, 1910-1916 -- PART 2 KYIV THE EPICENTRE -- In the Epicentre of Abstraction: Kyiv during the Time of Kurbas -- 7 The Yiddish Kultur-Lige -- 8 Politics and the Ukrainian Avant-garde -- 9 Kyiv's Multicultural Theatrical Life, 1917-1926 -- PART 3 'FIRE AND MOTION' -- 10 Towards a New Vision of Theatre: Les Kurbas's Work at the Young Theatre in Kyiv -- 11 The Choreographic Avant-garde in Kyiv, 1916-1921: Bronislava Nijinska and Her École de Mouvement -- 12 Kyiv, the 1920s, and Modernism in Music -- 13 Music in the Theatre of Les Kurbas -- PART 4 THE INVISIBLE MADE VISIBLE -- 14 Les Kurbas's Early Work at the Berezil: From Bodies in Motion to Performing the Invisible -- 15 Abstraction and Ukrainian Futurist Literature -- 16 The Graphic Arts: From Page Design to Theatre -- 17 Dissecting Time/Space: The Scottish Play and the New Technology of Film -- 18 On the World Stage: The Berezil in Paris and New York -- PART 5 ELEGIES: REFLECTIONS ON THE FUTURE PAST -- 19 Vsevolod Meyerhold and Les Kurbas -- 20 Les Kurbas and the Spiritual Foundations of the Ukrainian Avant-garde -- Appendices -- Contributors -- Index of Names and Titles