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2015
Contributor(s): Berghaus, Günter (Editor)
ISBN: 3110408503     ISBN-13: 9783110408508
Publisher: de Gruyter
OUR PRICE:   $228.00  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: June 2015
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BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | European - General
- Art | History - Modern (late 19th Century To 1945)
- Social Science
Physical Information: 1.69" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (2.75 lbs) 698 pages
 
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The special issue of International Yearbook of Futurism Studies for 2015 will investigate the role of Futurism in the oeuvre of a number of Women artists and writers. These include a number of women actively supporting Futurism (e.g. Růzena Zátková, Edyth von Haynau, Olga Rozanova, Eva Kühn), others periodically involved with the movement (e.g. Valentine de Saint Point, Aleksandra Ekster, Mary Swanzy), others again inspired only by certain aspects of the movement (e.g. Natalia Goncharova, Alice Bailly, Giovanna Klien). Several artists operated on the margins of a Futurist inspired aesthetics, but they felt attracted to Futurism because of its support for women artists or because of its innovatory roles in the social and intellectual spheres. Most of the artists covered in Volume 5 (2015) are far from straightforward cases, but exactly because of this they can offer genuinely new insights into a still largely under-researched domain of twentieth-century art and literature. Guiding questions for these investigations are: How did these women come into contact with Futurist ideas? Was it first-hand knowledge (poems, paintings, manifestos etc) or second-hand knowledge (usually newspaper reports or personal conversions with artists who had been in contact with Futurism)? How did the women respond to the (positive or negative) reports? How did this show up in their oeuvre? How did it influence their subsequent, often non-Futurist, career?

Contributor Bio(s): Berghaus, Gunter: - Günter Berghaus, Bristol University, Bristol, UK.