Beyond Given Knowledge: Investigation, Quest and Exploration in Modernism and the Avant-Gardes

Harri Veivo, Gunter Berghaus, Paola Sica, Jessica M. Law, Aleksandar Boskovic, Esther Sanchez-Pardo, Irina M. Denischenko, Cyril Crignon, Sami Sjoberg, Marianne Olholm, Andreea Apostu, Andreas Michel, Alberto Godioli, Victoria Ferentinou, Ivanne Rialland, Kristoffer Noheden, Eddis N. Miller, Michel Guerin, Atinati Mamatsashvili-Kobakhidze, Zuzana Rihova, Joel Hawkes, Agathe Mareuge, Jordis Lau, Margaret Tali, and Charline Pluvinet.

ISBN 10: 3110561875 / ISBN 13: 9783110561876

Published by De Gruyter, 2017

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2017 De Gruyter hardcover edition. Light reading wear else very good condition.

Contents:

1. Au-dela des savoirs acquis,
2. F.T. Marinetti's Quest for an Art Inspired by Science,
3. Iconoclastic Ginna: Futurism, Science and Total Art,
4. Marcel Duchamp's Problems and Demonstrations,
5. The Avant-Garde Quest for a Bioscopic Book,
6. The Visual Drive: William Carlos Williams' and Vicente Huidobro's Transformations of the Poetic Page,
7. Photopoetry: Czech Poetism and the Photographic Image,
8. De l'interactionnisme considere comme l'un des Beaux-Arts: Kaprow et Goffman,
9. Panamarenko's Nomad Science,
10. The Alphabet as World Picture: Inger Christensen's alfabet and Ron Silliman's the Alphabet,
11. Entre quete subjective et enquete objective: Le double visage du Neo-traditionnisme,
12. Carl Einstein's Proto-Religious Quest in Negerplastik and Georges Braque,
13. Natura non facit saltus: Gadda, Musil, and the Flux of Reality in European Modernism,
14. The Quest for the Marvellous: Pierre Mabille's Le Miroir du Merveilleux (1940), Surrealism and Art Theory,
15. Filature et espionnage dans le recit surrealiste,
16. The Grail and the Bees: Leonora Carrington's Quest for Human-Animal Coexistence,
17. Quete sans objet: Perec and the Useless,
18. Le Nouveau et l'Inedit,
19. La quete et l'enquete dans la poesie moderniste georgienne: Entre se rememorer et denoncer,
20. For a New Novel: Czech Modernism in the 1930s and Amor and Psyche of Milada Souckova,
21. Primitive Modern Practices of Place: Mary Butts and Christopher Wood in Paris and Cornwall,
22. 'Ainsi une Histoire de DADA est permise. ' L'historiographie paradoxale des dadaistes vieillissants, entre production de savoir(s) et mystification persistante,
23. Phantome der Avantgarde: Die Erforschung der (literarischen) Moderne in der Medienkunst,
24. Archeology of Trauma: Diana Dimza-Dimme's Miriam from the Mangalsala Island,
25. Les detectives incertains de la litterature a la fin du XXe siecle: Daniele Del Giudice et Roberto Bolano.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Beyond Given Knowledge: Investigation, Quest and Exploration in Modernism and the Avant-Gardes
• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3110561875
• ISBN 13: 9783110561876
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good
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Synopsis

The effort to go beyond given knowledge in different domains – artistic, scientific, political, metaphysical – is a characteristic driving force in modernism and the avant-gardes. Since the late 19th century, artists and writers have frequently investigated their medium and its limits, pursued political and religious aims, and explored hitherto unknown physical, social and conceptual spaces, often in ways that combine these forms of critical inquiry into one and provoke further theoretical and methodological innovations. The fifth volume of the EAM series casts light on the history and actuality of investigations, quests and explorations in the European avant-garde and modernism from the late 19th century to the present day. The authors seek to answer questions such as: How have modernism and the avant-garde appropriated scientific knowledge, religious dogmas and social conventions, pursuing their investigation beyond the limits of given knowledge and conceptions? How have modernism and avant-garde created new conceptual models or representations where other discourses have allegedly failed? In what ways do practises of investigation, quest or exploration shape artistic work or the formal and thematic structures of artworks?

About the Author

Harri Veivo, Université de Caen Normandie, Caen, France; Jean-Pierre Montier, Université Rennes 2, Rennes, France; Françoise Nicol, Université de Nantes, Nantes, France; David Ayers, University of Kent at Canterbury, Canterbury, United Kingdom; Benedikt Hjartarson, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland; Sascha Bru, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.