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 polit...

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