{"title":"From the Editors","authors":"Benedikt Hjartarson","doi":"10.1163/25896377-00201001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/25896377-00201001","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":495709,"journal":{"name":"Journal of avant-garde studies","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135146972","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Tarsila do Amaral","authors":"Rosita Mariella","doi":"10.1163/25896377-bja10010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/25896377-bja10010","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract In the field of visual arts, painter Tarsila do Amaral was a pioneer in her revindication of ‘peripheral’ areas, as well as in her opposition to an exclusive Eurocentric vision of the world. The article highlights how her contribution was crucial to an early approach to decolonization that used the notion of antropofagia to present the colonized in an act of ‘devouring’ the colonizer, assimilating certain aspects and discarding others to process and build new, independent identities. Considering her white, upper-class and cosmopolitan background, the article also explores the limits of her colonial-related art practices and the common trap of exoticism in the arts. Using the history of Tarsila do Amaral as a case study, this study will question how artists from ‘peripheral’ areas were making use of their access to native cultures in order to be part of the established European art scene and hegemonic discourse.","PeriodicalId":495709,"journal":{"name":"Journal of avant-garde studies","volume":"86 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135146967","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Rosa Arciniega and the Transformations of Avant-Garde Fiction","authors":"Juan Herrero-Senés","doi":"10.1163/25896377-bja10008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/25896377-bja10008","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The objective of this article is to provide a reevaluation of Rosa Arciniega’s (1903–1999) literary work in Spain throughout the 1930s. While her work is currently labelled as ‘social literature’, the present study will argue that this label is reductive and does not take into account the complexities, contradictions and transformations of her work. As this article will show, Arciniega sought to represent and express modernity in its most varied facets by focusing on three different areas: social denunciation, renewal of literary expression, and an appeal to romantic sentimentality. This study seeks to shed light on Arciniega’s immersion in time and the consequent grim diagnosis of modernity which led her from left-wing radicalism to more conservative positions. Formal experimentation will be seen as a key part of her literary trajectory.","PeriodicalId":495709,"journal":{"name":"Journal of avant-garde studies","volume":"2016 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135146973","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Avant-Garde and Kitsch in María Blanchard’s Neo-Cubism","authors":"Xon De Ros","doi":"10.1163/25896377-bja10007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/25896377-bja10007","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The exceptionality of the women artists who achieved recognition within the circles of the avant-garde in the first decades of the twentieth century involved a number of performative strategies to avoid the risk of being confined to the category of ‘women painters’. The case of María Blanchard, a Spanish painter integrated in the School of Paris, exemplifies the problematics faced by women working in the avant-garde. Her trajectory from synthetic Cubism to neo-Cubist figuration follows the pattern of many of her male contemporaries working under the sociopolitical and market pressures in the post-war period, but the simultaneous assimilation of and ironic distance from the prevailing aesthetic ideologies is a distinctive feature of her style shared by other women artists. As Cubism became mainstream and began to lose its subversive power, Blanchard’s interest in challenging conventional artistic discourses and hierarchies found expression in kitsch aesthetics.","PeriodicalId":495709,"journal":{"name":"Journal of avant-garde studies","volume":"63 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135146827","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Orange Tree and Postcritique in Valeria Luiselli’s Los ingrávidos","authors":"Iris Pearson","doi":"10.1163/25896377-bja10006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/25896377-bja10006","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This essay proposes that Valeria Luiselli’s Los ingrávidos rethinks modes of critical reading in the twenty-first century, arguing that the writer trains her reader in a mode of reading which anticipates Rita Felski’s opposition to critique, relishing acceptance and deference over suspicion and interrogation. By focusing on Luiselli’s intervention into readerly practice in this way, the essay moves beyond stringent national and historicist frameworks which often risk obscuring that novelist’s experimental forms and avant-garde project.","PeriodicalId":495709,"journal":{"name":"Journal of avant-garde studies","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135146974","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Las Vanguardistas: Women and the Avant-Garde in Ibero-America","authors":"Christina Bezari, Juanita Vélez Olivera","doi":"10.1163/25896377-00201002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/25896377-00201002","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":495709,"journal":{"name":"Journal of avant-garde studies","volume":"50 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135146968","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Literature and Prophecy","authors":"Claudia Chantaca","doi":"10.1163/25896377-bja10009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/25896377-bja10009","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This article analyzes Raquel Jodorowsky’s idea of poetry as revelation and examines the ludic aspects of her work, which functioned as a form of resistance to the canon. By focusing on her works Ajy Tojen [ The Creator of Light ] (1964) and Cuentos para cerebros detenidos [ Tales for Detained Brains ] (1974), this study highlights her relation to Latin American neovanguardias and explores her idea of the artist as a self-constructive individual. It also addresses her notion of Ajy Tojen , a mystical understanding of the poet as a person with the power to dissolve worn forms in order to seek a primordial expression and contribute to cosmic regeneration. Through an examination of her short stories, this study will show how she used different ludic strategies to desacralize literary and extra-literary genres.","PeriodicalId":495709,"journal":{"name":"Journal of avant-garde studies","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135146970","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Mexican Renascence","authors":"Louise Kane","doi":"10.1163/25896377-bja10005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/25896377-bja10005","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This article explores the periodical contributions of the Mexican-Jewish writer and editor Anita Brenner (1905–1974). It argues that Brenner’s periodical contributions—primarily relating to art criticism and published in diverse outlets such as The Nation , Mexican Folkways , the Brooklyn Daily Eagle , and Mademoiselle —decenter ideas of Mexico as a site of peripheral avant-gardism and reveal how Brenner was a pioneer of a transnational and, in some ways, distinctly female avant-garde network.","PeriodicalId":495709,"journal":{"name":"Journal of avant-garde studies","volume":"51 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135147110","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Art de Déconcentration","authors":"Adrian Pelc","doi":"10.1163/25896377-bja10004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/25896377-bja10004","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The paper attempts to establish a dialogue between advertising, the Yugoslav avant-garde and a theoretical discourse on the “death” of the avant-garde. In a first step, the trope of the avant-garde dying through its techniques being appropriated by advertising is briefly scrutinized. In a second step, the article demonstrates that the axes of exchange between Yugoslav avant-garde movements (Zenitism, Hypnism, Dadaism) and early advertising were multifold and irreducible to a simple matrix of originality and bad appropriation. Finally, the results of the analysis are considered from the perspective of “peripheral modernism” and their consequences for the grand death-discourse are scrutinized.","PeriodicalId":495709,"journal":{"name":"Journal of avant-garde studies","volume":"152 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136361799","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}