Beyond Given Knowledge : : Investigation, Quest and Exploration in Modernism and the Avant-Gardes / / ed. by Harri Veivo, Jean-Pierre Montier, Françoise Nicol, David Ayers, Benedikt Hjartarson, Sascha Bru.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2018 Part 1
• MitwirkendeR: Apostu, Andreea,; Berghaus, Günter,; Bošković, Aleksandar,; Crignon, Cyril,; Denischenko, Irina M.,; Ferentinou, Victoria,; Godioli, Alberto,; Guérin, Michel,; Hawkes, Joel,; Lau, Jordis,; Law, Jessica M.,; Mamatsashvili-Kobakhidze, Atinati,; Mareuge, Agathe,; Michel, Andreas,; Miller, Eddis N.,; Noheden, Kristoffer,; Pluvinet, Charline,; Rialland, Ivanne,; Sica, Paola,; Sjöberg, Sami,; Sánchez-Pardo, Esther,; Tali, Margaret,; Veivo, Harri,; Ølholm, Marianne,; Říhová, Zuzana,
• HerausgeberIn: Ayers, David,; Bru, Sascha,; Hjartarson, Benedikt,; Montier, Jean-Pierre ,; Nicol, Françoise ,; Veivo, Harri,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2017]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Series: European Avant-Garde and Modernism Studies , 5
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (XII, 412 p.)

The effort to go beyond given knowledge in different domains – artistic, scientific, political, metaphysical – is a characteristic driving force in modernism and the avant-gardes. Since the late 19th century, artists and writers have frequently investigated their medium and its limits, pursued political and religious aims, and explored hitherto unknown physical, social and conceptual spaces, often in ways that combine these forms of critical inquiry into one and provoke further theoretical and methodological innovations. The fifth volume of the EAM series casts light on the history and actuality of investigations, quests and explorations in the European avant-garde and modernism from the late 19th century to the present day. The authors seek to answer questions such as: How have modernism and the avant-garde appropriated scientific knowledge, religious dogmas and social conventions, pursuing their investigation beyond the limits of given knowledge and conceptions? How have modernism and avant-garde created new conceptual models or representations where other discourses have allegedly failed? In what ways do practises of investigation, quest or exploration shape artistic work or the formal and thematic structures of artworks?

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- About the Series – Sur la collection – Zur Buchreihe -- Introduction -- Au-delà des savoirs acquis -- Exploring the Intersections of Science, Technology and Art -- F.T. Marinetti’s Quest for an Art Inspired by Science -- Iconoclastic Ginna -- Marcel Duchamp’s Problems and Demonstrations -- The Avant-Garde Quest for a Bioscopic Book -- The Visual Drive -- Photopoetry: Czech Poetism and the Photographic Image -- De l’interactionnisme considéré comme l’un des Beaux-Arts -- Panamarenko’s Nomad Science -- The Alphabet as World Picture -- Other Forms of Knowledge -- Entre quête subjective et enquête objective -- Carl Einstein’s Proto-Religious Quest in Negerplastik and Georges Braque -- Natura non facit saltus -- The Quest for the Marvellous -- Filature et espionnage dans le récit surréaliste -- The Grail and the Bees -- Quête sans objet: Perec and the Useless -- Inquiries into the History of the Avant-Gardes and Modernism -- Le Nouveau et l’Inédit -- La quête et l’enquête dans la poésie moderniste géorgienne -- For a New Novel -- Primitive Modern Practices of Place -- « Ainsi une Histoire de DADA est permise… » -- Phantome der Avantgarde -- Archeology of Trauma -- Les détectives incertains de la littérature à la fin du XXe siècle -- List of Contributors -- Index -- Colour Illustrations