Modernism in Kyiv : : Jubilant Experimentation /

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

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 wel...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (680 p.)
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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

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