Historic Avant-Garde Work on Paper

ISBN-13: 9781032537351 / Twarda / 2024 / 280 str.

Opis

This book examines the many functions of paper in the fine art and aesthetics of the early twentieth-century modernist or historic avant-garde (expressionism, cubism, futurism, Dadaism, surrealism, constructivism and many more).

Spis treści

Introduction: The New Paper World Part: By Way of Introduction   I. Paper Matters 1. Painting White Paper White: Whiteness in Pablo Picasso’s Papiers Collés  2. From Tearing to Infra-Thin: Paper, Materiality and Metaphor in Arp, Picabia and Duchamp  3. Joan Miró’s Collages: “A Tribute to Bad Taste?”  Part II. Paper Community  4. Medium, Platform, Art Form: Avant-Garde Experiments with Paper in the Original Print Portfolio  5. Avant-Garde by Mail  6. Paper Exhibitions: The Magazine as Exhibition Catalogue  Part III. Paper Transfer 7. Monochrome Harmony: Black-and-White Work on Paper in Belgian Constructivism  8. Making Strange: Hirschfeld-Mack, Klee, the Monoprint and the Avant-Garde Diaspora 9.“The most burning question for contemporary thinking about art:” Art Competitions and the Discourse on Painting in Reproduction in Weimar Germany  10. Transparency on Paper: Imagining Glass Architecture from Taut to Eisenstein  Part IV. Paper Critique  11. Protean Papers: Material Transformations in German Paper and Kurt Schwitters’s Merz Drawings and Prints  12. Steadfast Matter: Paper’s Affects  13. The Treason of the Clerks: Accounting for Paris Dada Paperwork  14. Parade Albums and Censorship in the Soviet Union

O autorze

Sascha Bru is professor at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Leuven (Belgium).