Popular avant-garde
By: edited by Renée M. Silverman
Series: Avant-garde critical studies -- 25; Avant garde critical studies -- 25.
Publisher: Rodopi
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Amsterdam; New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9789042031609; 9789042031616
Subjects: Avant-garde (Aesthetics); Popular culture
Description: This book takes stock of the debates about both the "historical" ("modernist") and posterior avant-gardes, and sets them in relation to popular culture and art forms. With a critical introduction that examines the concepts of "avant-garde," "the popular," and "the popular avant-garde," the series of essays analyzes the way in which the avant-garde employs popular genres for political purposes, as well as how the popular acquires a critical function with respect to the avant-garde.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The avant-garde is popular (again) / Renée M. Silverman; title: "Not reactionary, just late" : the case for Ariano Suassuna as Brazilian modernist / Kirsten Ernst; title: This impossible Toyen / Malynne Sternstein; title: Huidobro, Cagliostro : demiurge as mage conjuring a metaphor for the avant-garde / Alexander Starkweather Fobes; title: Revisiting the vanguard : Duchamp in Buenos Aires / Lori Cole; title: Duende and modernism : Hart Crane's and Federico García Lorca's variations on rhythm and sound /Esther Sánchez-Pardo; title: A revolution of shadows : culture and representation in early-twentieth-century Mexico / R. Hernández Rodríguez; title: Giménez Caballero's fractured fairy tale : "El redentor mal parido" (1926) / Maria T. Pao; title: "A new dictionary of gestures" : Chaplin's "The rink" and Ricciotto Canudo's "Skating rink" / Christopher Townsend; title: A quick read(ies) : speed and formula in Bob Brown's Pulp fiction and avant-garde machines / Craig Saper; title: Reading Freire in London : Jo Spence's photographs between popular and avant-garde / Siona Wilson; title: Touching pasts "In the shadow of no towers" : 9/11 and Art Spiegelman's comix of memory /Jennifer Cho; title: From avant-garde to para-garde : "The truth about Marika" / Antti Salminen; title: Franciszka Themerson's "Ubu comic strip" : autography, caricature, and the avant garde / Barnaby Dicker; title: In search of a people's art : the divergent positions of Jorge Oteiza and David Alfaro Siqueiros / Marina Pérez de Mendiola; title: Venezuelan avant-garde : María Calcaño's erotic poetry / Giovanna Montenegro; title: Popular anthropology : dance, race, and Katherine Dunham / Kirsten Strom; title: Tom Zé's unsong and the fate of the Tropicália movement / Fabio Akcelrud Durão and José Adriano Fenerick.