Format:
Online-Ressource (361 S.)
,
Ill.
ISBN:
9789401203982
Series Statement:
Avantgarde 21
Content:
Preliminary material /Editors Avant-Garde and Criticism -- Criticism and Avant-Garde /Klaus Beekman and Jan de Vries -- Art Criticism and Avant-Garde: André Lhote’s Written Works /Jean-Roch Bouiller -- Architectural Criticism in de 8 en OPBOUW /Ben Rebel -- Theo van Doesburg and Writings on Film in De Stijl /Ansje van Beusekom -- The International Theatre Exhibition of 1922 and the Critics /Peter G.F. Eversmann -- The Making of a Reputation: the Case of Cobra /Nico Laan -- Avant-Garde Reviewing of New Book Releases A Case Study from The Netherlands /Hugo Verdaasdonk -- Mayakovsky as Literary Critic /Willem G. Weststeijn -- German Art in The Netherlands before and after World War II /Gregor Langfeld -- Banality in Art Criticism. Comments on the Reception of Art in the German Daily Press of the 1920s /Arie Hartog -- A Victorious Campaign for Dadaism? On the Press Coverage of the Dutch Dada Tour of 1923 /Hubert F. van den Berg -- The Inevitability of Argumentative Criticism Theo van Doesburg and the Constructive Review /Klaus Beekman -- On Intentionality and Avant-Garde Criticism /Ralf Grüttemeier -- Resistance to the Avant-Garde Criticism of the Avant-Garde in Dutch Literary Periodicals /Wiljan van den Akker and Gillis Dorleijn -- Dutch Contemporaries on Proust and the Historic Avant-Garde /Sabine van Wesemael -- The Writing Artists of the Magazine Kroniek van Kunst en Kultuur (Chronicle of Art and Culture) in the Period 1935-1941 /Hestia Bavelaar.
Content:
Avant-Garde and Criticism sheds new light on the complex aims, functions, practices and contexts of art-criticism in relation to the European avant-garde. Although many avant-garde works and the avant-gardes of various countries have been analyzed, considerably less attention has been given to the reviews in newspapers and journals on avant-garde literature, art, architecture and film. This volume of Avant-Garde Critical Studies will look at how art critics operated in a strategic way. The strategies of avant-garde criticism are diverse. Art critics, especially when they are artists themselves, attempt to manipulate the cultural climate in their favour. They use their position to legitimize avant-garde concepts and to conquer a place in the cultural field. But they are also markedly influenced by the context in which they operate. The position of fellow-critics and the ideological bias of the papers in which they publish can be as important as the political climate in which their criticism flourishes. The analysis of avant-garde art criticism can also make clear how strategies sometimes fail and involuntarily display non-avant-garde characteristics. On the other hand traditionalist criticism on the avant-garde offers new insights into its status and reception in a given time and place. This volume is of interest for scholars, teachers and students who are interested in the avant-garde of the interbellum-period and work in the field of literature, art, film and architecture
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789042021525
Additional Edition:
Druckausg. Avant-garde and criticism Amsterdam [u.a.] : Ed. Rodopi, 2007 ISBN 9789042021525
Language:
English
Keywords:
Kunst
;
Avantgarde
;
Kunstkritik
;
Geschichte 1900-1930
;
Aufsatzsammlung
DOI:
10.1163/9789401203982
Author information:
Beekman, Klaus 1945-
