Documentary aesthetics in the long 1960s in Eastern Europe and beyond / / edited by Clemens Gu¨nther, Matthias Schwartz.

• Superior document: Studies in Slavic literature and poetics ; 67
• TeilnehmendeR: Günther, Clemens,; Schwartz, Matthias,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden : : Brill Academic Publishers,, 2023.
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in Slavic literature and poetics ; 67.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (364 pages).

"This book is the first to deal with documentary aesthetic practices of the post-war period in Eastern Europe in a comparative perspective. The contributions examine the specific forms and modes of documentary representations and the role they played in the formation of new aesthetic trends during the cultural-political transition of the long 1960s. This documentary first-hand approach to the world aimed to break up unquestioned ideological structures and expose tabooed truths in order to engender much-needed social changes. New ways of depicting daily life, writing testimony or subjective reportage emerged that still shape cultural debates today."-- Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents

Introduction -- Chapter 1 "Document of the Soul:" Varlam Shalamov's Documentary Writing in a Contemporary Context -- Chapter 2 The Dreyfus Affair for Soviet Children: on the Encoded Poetics of Aleksandra Brushtein's Documentary Prose -- Chapter 3 Supplementing Evidence: Danilo Kis?'s Poet(h)ics in the Context of Yugoslav Documentarism of the 1960s -- Chapter 4 Hands of Time and Large Numbers in Alexander Kluge's (Post-)Documentary Literature -- Chapter 5 Celebration and Abstraction: the Documentary Mode of Jonas Mekas's Diary Films -- Chapter 6 Documentary and Poetics Interwoven: Mikhail Kalik's Cinema -- Chapter 7 The Technique of Documenting: on the Early Reportages of Ryszard Kapus´cin´ski and Hanna Krall -- Chapter 8 "Dramas of the Fact:" Soviet Conceptualisations of Documentary Theatre in the 1960s -- Chapter 9 "Instead of Approximate Precision-Precise Approximation:" Ian Satunovskii's Poor Poetry -- Chapter 10 Reproductions without an Original: the Self-Published Aesthetics of Cold War-Era Copies -- Chapter 11 The Trials of Documenting: Frida Vigdorova's Notes of the Brodsky Court Proceedings -- Chapter 12 The Poetry of Mikhail Sokovnin: an Aesthetic Opposition to the "Literature of Fact" -- Chapter 13 "Discourses of Sobriety:" Documentary Aesthetics in Conceptual Art in the United States -- Index.