The Aesthetics of Matter : : Modernism, the Avant-Garde and Material Exchange / / ed. by Sarah Posman, Anne Reverseau, David Ayers, Sascha Bru, Benedikt Hjartarson.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
• MitwirkendeR: Antoniadis, Pavlos,; Best, Susan,; Cole, Lori,; Dessy, Clément,; Drobnick, Jim,; Eram, Cosana,; Feshchenko, Vladimir,; Głuchowska, Lidia,; Heibach, Christiane,; Hermansson, Gunilla,; Jakubowska, Agata,; Kilian, Eveline,; Langfeld, Gregor,; Leydenbach, Claire,; Loukopoulou, Eleni,; Mildenberg, Ariane,; Nachtergael, Magali,; Otty, Lisa,; Paldam, Camilla Skovbjerg,; Pintilie, Ileana,; Rasula, Jed,; Sakoparnig, Andrea,; Schindler, Tabea,; Sjöberg, Sami,; Skrubbe, Jessica Sjöholm,; Thiérard, Hélène,; Théval, Gaëlle,; Toporišič, Tomaž,; Warden, Claire,; West, Emma,; Ørum, Tania,
• HerausgeberIn: Ayers, David,; Bru, Sascha,; Hjartarson, Benedikt,; Posman, Sarah,; Reverseau, Anne,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2013]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Series: European Avant-Garde and Modernism Studies , 3
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (435 p.)

It has often been argued that the arrival of the early-20th-century avant-gardes and modernisms coincided with an in-depth exploration of the materiality of art and writing. The European historical avant-gardes and modernisms excelled in their attempts to establish the specificity of media and art f...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• About the Series – Sur la collection – Zur Buchreihe
• Introduction
• Matter on the Move
• Modernism Diffracted
• André Breton’s Autobiographical Cut-Ups
• Visual Music, a Missing Link?
• From Abstract Film to Op Art and Kinetic Art?
• “hap-hap-hap-hap-happy clothes” Avant-Garde Experiments in/with Material(s)
• The Poetic Materiality of Fascism on the British Stage
• Dematerializing Verbal and Visual Matter
• Material Memory
• Beyond Matter or Form
• Upon Hearing James Joyce
• Small Press Modernists
• Plaster as a Matter of Memory
• Deconstructive Readings of the Avant-Garde Tradition in Post-Socialist Retro-Avant-Garde Theatre
• The Materiality of a Contemporary Avant-Garde?
• Spaces and Places
• Reproducing the Avant-Garde
• Bedeutungsveränderung und Kanonisierung des deutschen Expressionismus in den USA
• Expressionism, Fiction and Intermediality in Nordic Modernism
• Materiality and Dematerialization in Paul Neagu’s Work
• La maison d’artiste en portrait, manifeste et sanctuaire
• Liquid Modernity and the Concrete City
• Bodies and Sensoria
• To “Feel Breathing”
• Synthesis Instead of Analysis
• Lygia Clark, the Paris Years
• Les matérialités à l’oeuvre dans la « poésie élémentaire » de Julien Blaine
• Corps, que me veux-tu?
• Subjectivities
• M/Paternal Meanings in the Neo-Avant-Garde
• Raoul Hausmann et le montage de matériau textuel : Hylé I
• Georges Hugnet’s Surrealist Monsters and Women
• From Material Meaningless to Poetics of Potentiality
• A “Dance of Gestures”
• Conceptual Frames of Life
• Passage du sujet dans la « matière mentale » surréaliste
• List of Contributors
• Index