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Voiceless Vanguard
Sara P. Weld
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Description for Voiceless Vanguard
Paperback. Series: Studies in Russian Literature and Theory. Num Pages: 212 pages, black & white illustrations, figures. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 2AGR; ACV; ACXD; DSBF; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 540.
Voiceless Vanguard: The Infantilist Aesthetic of the Russian Avant-Garde offers a new approach to the Russian avant-garde. It argues that central writers, artists, and theorists of the avant-garde self-consciously used an infantile aesthetic, as inspired by children’s art, language, perspective, and logic, to accomplish the artistic renewal they were seeking in literature, theory, and art. It treats the influence of children’s drawings on the Neo-Primitivism art of Mikhail Larionov, the role of children’s language in the Cubo-Futurist poetics of Aleksei Kruchenykh, the role of the naive perspective in the Formalist theory of Viktor Shklovsky, and the place of children’s logic ... Read more
Voiceless Vanguard: The Infantilist Aesthetic of the Russian Avant-Garde offers a new approach to the Russian avant-garde. It argues that central writers, artists, and theorists of the avant-garde self-consciously used an infantile aesthetic, as inspired by children’s art, language, perspective, and logic, to accomplish the artistic renewal they were seeking in literature, theory, and art. It treats the influence of children’s drawings on the Neo-Primitivism art of Mikhail Larionov, the role of children’s language in the Cubo-Futurist poetics of Aleksei Kruchenykh, the role of the naive perspective in the Formalist theory of Viktor Shklovsky, and the place of children’s logic ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Northwestern University Press United States
Number of pages
212
Condition
New
Series
Studies in Russian Literature and Theory
Number of Pages
212
Place of Publication
Evanston, United States
ISBN
9780810129849
SKU
V9780810129849
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About Sara P. Weld
Sara Pankenier Weld is an assistant professor of Russian in the Department of Germanic, Slavic, and Semitic Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
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