Regarding the Popular : : Modernism, the Avant-Garde and High and Low Culture / / ed. by Sascha Bru, Laurence Nuijs, Benedikt Hjartarson, Peter Nicholls, Hubert Berg, Tania Ørum.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
• MitwirkendeR: Angel, Sara J.,; Asholt, Wolfgang,; Ayers, David,; Blinder, Caroline,; Buchowska, Dominika,; Buelens, Geert,; Burrells, Anna,; Dario, Maria,; Elfline, Ross K.,; Genin, Christophe,; Hamalidi, Elena,; Hopkins, David,; Jakubowska, Agata,; Jutz, Gabriele,; Kókai, Károly,; Lewer, Debbie,; Nikolopoulou, Maria,; Olsson, Jesper,; Orosz, Márton,; Paterson, Alexis,; Perloff, Marjorie,; Rialland, Ivanne,; Rymenants, Koen,; Samson, Regina,; Spiteri, Raymond,; Susik, Abigail,; Sánchez-Pardo, Esther,; Veivo, Harri,; Verstraeten, Pieter,; Walldén, Rea,; Welge, Jobst,; Williams, Gregory H.,; Śniecikowska, Beata,
• HerausgeberIn: Berg, Hubert,; Bru, Sascha,; Hjartarson, Benedikt,; Nicholls, Peter,; Nuijs, Laurence,; Ørum, Tania,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2011]; ©2012
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Series: European Avant-Garde and Modernism Studies , 2
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (490 p.)

Regarding the Popular charts the complex relationship between the avant-gardes and modernisms on the one hand and popular culture on the other. Covering (neo-)avant-gardists and modernists from various European countries, this second volume in the series European Avant-Garde and Modernism Studies explores the nature of so-called “low” culture, dealing with aspects as diverse as the everyday and the folkloric. Regarding the Popular charts the many ways in which the allegedly “high” modernists and avant-gardists looked at and represented the “low”. As such, this book will appeal to all those with an interest in the dynamic of modern experimental arts and literatures.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- About the Series / Sur la collection / Zur Buchreihe -- Contents -- Introduction -- Given the Popular -- Terms and Canons -- “The Madness of the Unexpected”: Duchamp's Readymades and the Survival of “High” Art -- Instrument of Inspiration: High/Low Illusions in British Experimental Music and After -- English Rebels in Art Circles: The New Age in its Elitist and Populist Dimension -- Kinesthetic Modernism? Rhythms, Bodies and Motion across the Great Divide -- Art, Nation and Political Discourse -- Culture en quête de repères -- Folklore -- Dada, Carnival and Revolution -- Spuren der Volksdichtung in der ungarischen Avantgardeliteratur -- Musical Boxes: The Impersonal Avant-Garde Poem, Everyday Language and Popular Song -- What Did They Need Jazz For? Jazz Music in Polish Interwar Poetry -- Der junge Borges und die ultraistische Avantgarde. Das Populäre als Taktik -- The Theatre of Ramón del Valle-Inclán: Between Modernism and the Popular Imagination -- The Everyday -- Sitting Pretty: Modernism and the Municipal Chair in the Photographs of André Kertész and Robert Doisneau -- Everyday Life in André Breton's Trilogy. Nadja, Vases Communicants and L'Amour fou -- Entre mime et possession: récits surréalistes et fictions populaires -- The Blood of a Poet: Cocteau, Surrealism and the Politics of the Vulgar -- “Broken Clouds – also by Instalments”: Mediating Art and the Everyday, the High and the Low in the Finnish Literary Avant-Garde of the 1960s -- The “Abakans” and the Feminist Revolution -- A Glossier Shade of Brown: Imi Knoebel's Raum 19 -- Commerce -- Selling Dada: New York Dada (1921) and Its Dialogue with the European Avant-Garde -- Wyndham Lewis and the Inter-War Popular Novel: Potboilers and Gunman Bestsellers -- Le Douanier Rousseau, Fantômas & Cie: La culture populaire, ressort majeur des Soirées de Paris -- Between the Old and the New: The Surrealist Outmoded as a Radical Third Term -- „The Hidden Network of the Avant-Garde”: der farbige Werbefilm als eine zentraleuropäische Erfindung? -- Media -- Lessons from the Press: Picasso and Mass Print Media, 1911-37 -- Film und Filmprojekte in der Wiener Avant-Garde Zeitschrift Ma (1920-25) -- „Produktion – Reproduktion”: Echos von László Moholy-Nagys Medientheorie in der Geschichte von Film und Medienkunst -- Modernism in the Ether: Middlebrow Perspectives on European Literature in Flemish Radio Talks (1936-37) -- A Second Avant-Garde without a First: Greek Avant-Garde Artists in the 1960s and 1970s -- Mass Media Avant-Garde: Dislocating the Hi/Lo in the Swedish 1960s -- A Tentative Embrace. Superstudio's New Media Nomads -- Index