The European Avant-garde: A Hundred Years Later (Transcultural Aesthetics, 1)

"The title of this book, The European Avant-Garde - A Hundred Years Later, implies the European avant-garde took place a century ago, that it is a thing of the past. However, it does not aim to consolidate this position, but to question it. It addresses temporality as the central dimension related to the notion of the avant-garde. The book brings forth original revisions of the theories of the avant-garde, the works of the avant-garde, the idea of the avant-garde as being the vanguard, the leading force of change. It addresses the returning of the avant-garde during the twentieth century and today" Contents Figures and Tables Figures Notes on Contributors Introduction: the Turning and Returning of the Avant-Garde Bibliography Part 1: The Avant-Garde Is Back 1 Revolution Reconsidered: the Three Avant-Garde Traditions 1 The Ontological Tradition 2 The Critical Tradition 3 The Anachronic Tradition Bibliography 2 Anaphorizing Histories: on the Entanglements of Paleo-, Neo-, and Tardo-Avant-Gardes Bibliography 3 A Quest for Avant-Garde: Doing Avant-Garde, Inheriting Avant-Garde 1 Avant-Garde as the End of Art 2 The Requirement for a (Social) Change: the Question of Inheritance 3 Rendezvous of the Avant-Garde in the Twentieth Century: Neo-Avant-Garde, Post-Socialist-Avant-Garde, Retro-Avant-Garde and Retro-Utopianism 4 Structures of Resistance 5 Conclusion: Returning to the Origin? Bibliography Part 2: Avant-Garde and Geo-Politics 4 European Avant-Gardes between International and Global 1 Concepts and Modalities of Avant-Garde Art Practices 2 European and International Avant-Gardes 3 Avant-Gardes’ Demise before WWII 5 Trieste–Ljubljana–Zagreb–Belgrade 1 Multiple and Complicated Relations between the (Theatre) Avant-Gardes in Central Europe 2 Slovene, Croatian and Serbian Avant-Garde Circles and New European Artistic Movements 3 The Manifestos on the New Slovene Theatre and on Constructivist Arts 4 Post-Scriptum or How the History of the Avant-Garde Links and Networks from the 1920’s Repeated in a New Version in the 1980’s Acknowledgements Part 3: The Neglected Avant-Garde Genres and Media 6 Avant-Garde Manifesto 1 Avant-Garde and Its End 2 From Avant-Garde to Avant-Garde Manifesto 3 What Is Text and What Is Rhetorical about Text 4 Semantic Production 5 Tropicality of Avant-Garde Manifesto 7 An Exercise in Categorization: Avant-Garde Cinema of the 1920s 1 Introduction 2 Peculiarities of the Seventh Art 3 Painters’ and Poets’ Revenge 4 The Two French Avant-Gardes 5 Conclusion Part 4: Expressionism Reconsidered 8 Expressionism and Weimar Cinema 1 Introduction 2 The Magnitude of Expressionism 3 Siegfried Kracauer and Lotte Eisner 4 Making Evil Visible 5 Conclusion 9 Franz Marc’s Avant-Garde Animal Painting 1 Introduction 2 Aristotle: Animal’s Soul as Bodily Vitality 3 Hegel: Animal Has a Soul, Not a Spirit 4 German Philosophy at the Time of Franz Marc’s Artistic Creation 5 Psychological Aesthetics and the Birth of German Expressionism: Worringer and Kandinsky 6 About Expressionism 7 Franz Marc’s Animal Painting: Empathy and Self-awareness of Horses 8 Franz Marc: Pioneer of Modern Anthropomorphism 9 Animal Ethics against Animal Abuse Denial: Case of Equestrianism Part 5: Post-Gravity Art 10 The Avant-Garde Politics of Time: the Case of Post-Gravity Art 1 Introduction 2 Avant-Garde through the Prism of Philosophy and Politics of Time 3 Avant-Garde Politics of Time and Post-Gravity Art 4 Conclusion 11 Bodies-In-Freedom: from Futurist Aerial Theatre to Space Art 1 Introduction 2 Futurist Aerial Theatre: the Sky as the New True Theatrical Stage 3 Liberation from Gravity 4 Exploring Weightless Space in Art 5 Post-Gravity Art: the 50-Year Theatre Projectile Noordung 6 Extensions of the Body: Entering a Virtual Space 7 Conclusion Index of Names Index of Terms