TY  - BOOK
AU  - Beekman,K.
AU  - Vries,Jan de
TI  - Avant-garde and criticism
T2  - Avant Garde critical studies
SN  - 9789401203982
AV  - N7475 .A83 2007eb
U1  - 701/.18 22
PY  - 2007///
CY  - Amsterdam, New York
PB  - Rodopi
KW  - Avant-garde (Aesthetics)
KW  - Europe
KW  - Arts, European
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Art criticism
KW  - History
KW  - fast
N1  - Includes bibliographical references; Preliminary material; Editors Avant-Garde and Criticism --; Criticism and Avant-Garde; Klaus Beekman and Jan de Vries --; Art Criticism and Avant-Garde: André Lhote’s Written Works; Jean-Roch Bouiller --; Architectural Criticism in de 8 en OPBOUW; Ben Rebel --; Theo van Doesburg and Writings on Film in De Stijl; Ansje van Beusekom --; The International Theatre Exhibition of 1922 and the Critics; Peter G.F. Eversmann --; The Making of a Reputation: the Case of Cobra; Nico Laan --; Avant-Garde Reviewing of New Book Releases A Case Study from The Netherlands; Hugo Verdaasdonk --; Mayakovsky as Literary Critic; Willem G. Weststeijn --; German Art in The Netherlands before and after World War II; Gregor Langfeld --; Banality in Art Criticism. Comments on the Reception of Art in the German Daily Press of the 1920s; Arie Hartog --; A Victorious Campaign for Dadaism? On the Press Coverage of the Dutch Dada Tour of 1923; Hubert F. van den Berg --; The Inevitability of Argumentative Criticism Theo van Doesburg and the Constructive Review; Klaus Beekman --; On Intentionality and Avant-Garde Criticism; Ralf Grüttemeier --; Resistance to the Avant-Garde Criticism of the Avant-Garde in Dutch Literary Periodicals; Wiljan van den Akker and Gillis Dorleijn --; Dutch Contemporaries on Proust and the Historic Avant-Garde; Sabine van Wesemael --; The Writing Artists of the Magazine Kroniek van Kunst en Kultuur (Chronicle of Art and Culture) in the Period 1935-1941; Hestia Bavelaar; Available to subscribing member institutions only
N2  - Avant-Garde and Criticism sheds new light on the complex aims, functions, practices and contexts of art-criticism in relation to the European avant-garde. Although many avant-garde works and the avant-gardes of various countries have been analyzed, considerably less attention has been given to the reviews in newspapers and journals on avant-garde literature, art, architecture and film. This volume of Avant-Garde Critical Studies will look at how art critics operated in a strategic way. The strategies of avant-garde criticism are diverse. Art critics, especially when they are artists themselves, attempt to manipulate the cultural climate in their favour. They use their position to legitimize avant-garde concepts and to conquer a place in the cultural field. But they are also markedly influenced by the context in which they operate. The position of fellow-critics and the ideological bias of the papers in which they publish can be as important as the political climate in which their criticism flourishes. The analysis of avant-garde art criticism can also make clear how strategies sometimes fail and involuntarily display non-avant-garde characteristics. On the other hand traditionalist criticism on the avant-garde offers new insights into its status and reception in a given time and place. This volume is of interest for scholars, teachers and students who are interested in the avant-garde of the interbellum-period and work in the field of literature, art, film and architecture
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789401203982
ER  -