Regarding the Popular
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Regarding the Popular charts the complex relationship between the avant-gardes and modernisms on the one hand and popular culture on the other. Covering (neo-)avant-gardists and modernists from various European countries, this second volume in the series European Avant-Garde and Modernism Studies explores the nature of so-called "low" culture, dealing with aspects as diverse as the everyday and the folkloric. Regarding the Popular charts the many ways in which the allegedly "high" modernists and avant-gardists looked at and represented the "low". As such, this book will appeal to all those with an interest in the dynamic of modern experimental arts and literatures.
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- Intro
- About the Series - Surla collection - Zur Buchreihe
- Introduction
- Given the Popular
- Terms and Canons
- "The Madness of the Unexpected". Duchamp's Readymades and the Survival of "High" Art
- Instrument of Inspiration High/Low Illusions in British Experimental Music and After
- English Rebels in Art Circles: The New Age in its Elitist and Populist Dimension
- Kinaesthetic Modernism? Rhythms, Bodies and Motion across the Great Divide
- Art, Nation and Political Discourse
- Culture en quête de repères
- Folklore
- Dada, Carnival and Revolution
- Spuren der Volksdichtung in der ungarischen Avantgardeliteratur
- Musical Boxes: The Impersonal Avant-Garde Poem, Everyday Language and Popular Song
- What Did They Need Jazz For? Jazz Music in Polish Interwar Poetry
- Der junge Borges und die ultraistische Avantgarde Das Populäre als Taktik
- The Theatre of Ramón del Valle-Inclán: Between Modernism and the Popular Imagination
- The Everyday
- Sitting Pretty: Modernism and the Municipal Chair in the Photographs of André Kertész and Robert Doisneau
- Everyday Life in André Breton's Trilogy Nadja, Vases Communicants and L'Amour fou
- Entre mime et possession: récits surréalistes et fictions populaires
- The Blood of the Poet: Cocteau, Surrealism and the Politics of the Vulgar
- "Broken Clouds - also by Instalments": Mediating Art and the Everyday, the High and the Low in the Finnish Literary Avant-Garde of the 1960s
- The "Abakans" and the Feminist Revolution
- A Glossier Shade of Brown: Imi Knoebel's Raum 19
- Commerce
- Selling Dada: New York Dada (1921) and Its Dialogue with the European Avant-Garde
- Wyndham Lewis and the Inter-War Popular Novel. Potboilers and Gunman Bestsellers
- Le Douanier Rousseau, Fantômas & Cie: La culture populaire, ressort majeur des Soirées de Paris
- Between the Old and the New: The Surrealist Outmoded as a Radical Third Term
- "The Hidden Network of the Avant-Garde": der farbige Werbefilm als eine zentraleuropäische Erfindung?
- Media
- Lessons from the Press: Picasso and Mass Print Media, 1911-37
- Film und Filmprojekte in der Wiener Avant-Garde Zeitschrift Ma (1920-25)
- "Produktion - Reproduktion": Echos von Lázló Moholy-Nagys Medientheorie in der Geschichte von Film und Medienkunst
- Modernism in the Ether: Middlebrow Perspectives on European Literature in Flemish Radio Talks (1936-37)
- A Second Avant-Garde without a First: GreekAvant-Garde Artists in the 1960s and 1970s
- Mass Media Avant-Garde: Dislocating the Hi/Lo in the Swedish 1960s
- A Tentative Embrace. Superstudio's New Media Nomads
- Index
