Anthony Enns, Shelley Trower (eds.): Vibratory Modernism (2013)
Filed under book | Tags: · art, avant-garde, dada, modernism, occultism, performance, photography, sound, theatre, vorticism
“Vibratory Modernism is a collection of original essays that will enable scholars and students to explore how vibrations provided a means of bridging science and art – two fields that became increasingly separate over the course of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The book demonstrates the vital role played by vibrations in the fields of physics, physiology, spiritualism, and by new vibratory technologies, in helping to shape the way modernist art was made and viewed. The chapters are placed into three connecting parts focusing on literature, the visual arts and theatre, each part highlighting the diverse ways in which writers, artists and performers engaged with the fascinating world of vibrations.”
Publisher Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 1137027258, 9781137027252
288 pages
Lars Kleberg, Aleksei Semenko (eds.): Aksenov and the Environs (2012) [Russian, English]
Filed under book | Tags: · art, art history, avant-garde, constructivism, futurism, literature, russia, theatre
“Ivan Aleksandrovich Aksenov (1883-1935), critic, poet, and translator, was an outstanding representative of the Russian avant-garde art.
In the 1920s, Aksenov was close to the constructivists and worked in the theatre of Vsevolod Meyerhold, also serving as the dean of its directors’ school. Aksenov’s analysis of the problems of mis-en-scène, more geometrical than ideological, influenced a new generation of directors, headed by Sergei Eisenstein.
For different reasons, Ivan Aksenov’s life and works have remained unknown outside a small circle of initiated readers. During the Soviet era, he was soon marginalized because of his engineer’s view of art and his anti-ideological position. Later, specialised scholars ignored him, finding it too difficult to grasp his versatile personality, which was both original and representative of the multi-faceted Russian avant-garde movement.
This book of essays by authors from nine different countries sheds light on the writer’s extraordinary contribution to Russian culture.”
Contributions by Lars Kleberg, John Bowlt, Nicoletta Misler, and Janne Risum are in English.
Publisher Södertörns högskola, Huddinge, 2012
Södertörn Academic Studies 52
ISBN 9186069543, 9789186069544
242 pages
via DiVA Academic Archive
David F. Kuhns: German Expressionist Theatre: The Actor and the Stage (1997)
Filed under book | Tags: · 1910s, 1920s, avant-garde, cabaret, expressionism, germany, performance, theatre
“German Expressionist Theatre considers the powerfully stylized, antirealistic styles of symbolic acting on the German Expressionist stage from 1916 to 1921. It relates this striking departure from the dominant European acting tradition of realism to the specific cultural crises that enveloped the German nation during the course of its involvement in World War I. The examination of portions of previously untranslated Expressionist scripts and actor memoirs allows for an unprecedented focus on description and analysis of the acting itself.
– Examines German Expressionist theatre from a performance point of view
– Contains previously untranslated portions of Expressionist scripts and actor memoirs
– Looks in detail at key works and productions”
Publisher Cambridge University Press, 1997
ISBN 0521583403, 9780521583404
311 pages
via Charles Turner
review (Anne M. Turner, Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism)
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