Avant-garde/Neo-avant-garde / / editor, Dietrich Scheunemann.

• Superior document: Avant Garde critical studies ; 17
• TeilnehmendeR: Scheunemann, Dietrich.
• Year of Publication: 2005
• Language: English
• Series: Avant garde critical studies ; 17.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (346 pages) :; illustrations, portrait
• Notes: Contributions mostly based on papers previously presented at a conference held in Edinburgh in Sept. 2002.
• Other title: Preliminary Material /; Preface /; From Collage to the Multiple. On the Genealogy of Avant-Garde and Neo-Avant-Garde /; Wilhelm Worringer and the Historical Avant-Garde /; On the Historiographic Distinction between Historical and Neo-Avant-Garde /; Abstraction, Sublation and the Avant-Garde: The Case of De Stijl /; Sameness and Difference: Duchamp’s Editioned Ready-mades and the Neo-Avant-Garde /; Paint it Black: Ad Reinhardt’s Paradoxical Avant-Gardism /; Verbal Chemistry and Concrete Poetry /; How the Letters Learnt to Dance: On Language Dissection in Dadaist, Concrete and Digital Poetry /; American Language Poetry and the Definition of the Avant-Garde /; From Futurism to Neo-Futurism: Continuities and New Departures in Twentieth-Century Avant-Garde Performance /; Actor or Puppet: The Body in the Theatres of the Avant-Garde /; Fragmentation of the Body in Spanish Surrealism /; The Surface of Illusion: Avant-Garde Apperception and Antecedence in Structural/Materialist Film /; What Avant-Garde? /; The Limits of “Non-Plan”: Architecture and the Avant-Garde /; Montage in the Arts: A Reassessment /; Means and Metaphors of Change: Technology and the Danish Avant-Garde of the 1960's /; Literature under the Impact of Film: On Dutch Author-Critics of the Avant-Garde and Neo-Avant-Garde /; List of Illustrations /; Index /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 9401202583; 1423788516
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: editor, Dietrich Scheunemann.

This collection of critical essays explores new approaches to the study of avant-garde literature and art, film and architecture. It offers a theoretical framework that avoids narrowly defined notions of the avant-garde. It takes into account the diversity of artistic aims and directions of the various avant-garde movements and encourages a wide and open exploration of the multifaceted and often contradictory nature of the great variety of avant-gardist innovations. Individual essays concentrate on cubist collage and dadaist photomontage, on abstract painting by members of the Dutch group De Stijl , on verbal chemistry and dadaist poetry and on body art from futurism to surrealism. In addition, the collection wishes to open up the discussion of the avant-garde to a thorough investigation of neo-avant-garde activities in the 1950's and 1960's. For decades the appreciation of neo-avant-garde art and literature, film and architecture suffered from a general and all-inclusive rebuke. This volume is designed to contribute to a breakthrough towards a more competent and more precise investigation of this research field. Contributions include a discussion of Warhol’s multiples as well as Duchamp’s editioned ready-mades, forms of concrete and digital poetry as well as the architectural “Non-Plan”. The main body of the volume is based on presentations and discussions of a three-day research seminar held at the University of Edinburgh in September 2002. The research group formed around the Avant-Garde Project at Edinburgh will continue with its efforts to elaborate a new theory of the avant-garde in the coming years.