The European Avant-garde: A Hundred Years Later (Transcultural Aesthetics, 1)

Contents
Figures and Tables
	Figures
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: the Turning and Returning of the Avant-Garde
	Bibliography
Part 1: The Avant-Garde Is Back
1 Revolution Reconsidered: the Three Avant-Garde Traditions
	1 The Ontological Tradition
	2 The Critical Tradition
	3 The Anachronic Tradition
	Bibliography
2 Anaphorizing Histories: on the Entanglements of Paleo-, Neo-, and Tardo-Avant-Gardes
	Bibliography
3 A Quest for Avant-Garde: Doing Avant-Garde, Inheriting Avant-Garde
	1 Avant-Garde as the End of Art
	2 The Requirement for a (Social) Change: the Question of Inheritance
	3 Rendezvous of the Avant-Garde in the Twentieth Century: Neo-Avant-Garde, Post-Socialist-Avant-Garde, Retro-Avant-Garde and Retro-Utopianism
	4 Structures of Resistance
	5 Conclusion: Returning to the Origin?
	Bibliography
Part 2: Avant-Garde and Geo-Politics
4 European Avant-Gardes between International and Global
	1 Concepts and Modalities of Avant-Garde Art Practices
	2 European and International Avant-Gardes
	3 Avant-Gardes’ Demise before WWII
5 Trieste–Ljubljana–Zagreb–Belgrade
	1 Multiple and Complicated Relations between the (Theatre) Avant-Gardes in Central Europe
	2 Slovene, Croatian and Serbian Avant-Garde Circles and New European Artistic Movements
	3 The Manifestos on the New Slovene Theatre and on Constructivist Arts
	4 Post-Scriptum or How the History of the Avant-Garde Links and Networks from the 1920’s Repeated in a New Version in the 1980’s
	Acknowledgements
Part 3: The Neglected Avant-Garde Genres and Media
6 Avant-Garde Manifesto
	1 Avant-Garde and Its End
	2 From Avant-Garde to Avant-Garde Manifesto
	3 What Is Text and What Is Rhetorical about Text
	4 Semantic Production
	5 Tropicality of Avant-Garde Manifesto
7 An Exercise in Categorization: Avant-Garde Cinema of the 1920s
	1 Introduction
	2 Peculiarities of the Seventh Art
	3 Painters’ and Poets’ Revenge
	4 The Two French Avant-Gardes
	5 Conclusion
Part 4: Expressionism Reconsidered
8 Expressionism and Weimar Cinema
	1 Introduction
	2 The Magnitude of Expressionism
	3 Siegfried Kracauer and Lotte Eisner
	4 Making Evil Visible
	5 Conclusion
9 Franz Marc’s Avant-Garde Animal Painting
	1 Introduction
	2 Aristotle: Animal’s Soul as Bodily Vitality
	3 Hegel: Animal Has a Soul, Not a Spirit
	4 German Philosophy at the Time of Franz Marc’s Artistic Creation
	5 Psychological Aesthetics and the Birth of German Expressionism: Worringer and Kandinsky
	6 About Expressionism
	7 Franz Marc’s Animal Painting: Empathy and Self-awareness of Horses
	8 Franz Marc: Pioneer of Modern Anthropomorphism
	9 Animal Ethics against Animal Abuse Denial: Case of Equestrianism
Part 5: Post-Gravity Art
10 The Avant-Garde Politics of Time: the Case of Post-Gravity Art
	1 Introduction
	2 Avant-Garde through the Prism of Philosophy and Politics of Time
	3 Avant-Garde Politics of Time and Post-Gravity Art
	4 Conclusion
11 Bodies-In-Freedom: from Futurist Aerial Theatre to Space Art
	1 Introduction
	2 Futurist Aerial Theatre: the Sky as the New True Theatrical Stage
	3 Liberation from Gravity
	4 Exploring Weightless Space in Art
	5 Post-Gravity Art: the 50-Year Theatre Projectile Noordung
	6 Extensions of the Body: Entering a Virtual Space
	7 Conclusion
Index of Names
Index of Terms