Preservation, Radicalism, and the Avant-Garde Canon [Hardcover]

Combining a range of content with self-reflexive examination by scholars and practitioners, this edited volume interrogates the contemporary significance of the avant-garde. Rather than focusing on a particular region, period, or movement, the contributors bring together case studies to examine what constitutes the avant-garde canon.

PART I: STAGING THE AVANT-GARDES
1. Exquisite Encounters with the Avant-Gardes; Rebecca Ferreboeuf, Fiona Noble, Tara Plunkett
2. Telling the Telling of the Tale: A Dialogue; James Harding and Mike Sell
PART II: CURATING THE AVANT-GARDES
3. Curating Problems: Expanded Cinema; Julian Ross
4. An Active Encounter: Tam?s St. Turba's Czechoslovakia Radio1968 and Avant-Garde Objects in Contemporary Contexts; Ciara Hickey
PART III: ON THE MARGINS OF THE AVANT-GARDES
5. C?line Arnauld's Po?mes ? Claires-Voies (Openwork Poems); Ruth Hemus
6. Firmin G?mier, the Avant-Garde Populist; Kimberly Jannarone
7. Remedios Varo's Feminine, Spiritual Quest; Ricki O'Rawe
PART IV: REREADING THE AVANT-GARDES
8. Reframing the Void: Duchamp's Readymade as a Lacanian Object; Robert Kilroy
9. Preserving Life Force: Antonin Artaud and Zhuangzi on the Body; Xiaofan Amy Li
10. Lee Miller's Dialogues with the Avant-Garde; Patricia Allmer
PART V: CATEGORIZING THE AVANT-GARDES
11. Hearing Tsang Tsou Choi: Marginalia, Madness and a Hong Kong Avant Garde; Simon Soon
12. Acting in Front of the Camera: Avant-Garde Approaches to Staged Photography; Przemyslaw Strozek
13. Films for the Drawer: Post-War Czech Surrealism and the Impossible Encounter with Cinema; Jonathan Owen
PART VI: CLOSING THE CURTAIN ON THE AVANT-GARDES?
Epilogue: The Tale is Told?; John McCulloch

Preservation, Radicalism, and the Avant-Garde Canon aims to investigate radical art in oló