Russian Futurist Theatre

Russian Futurist Theatre

Author: Robert Leach

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Published: 2018-05-31

Total Pages: 281

ISBN-13: 1474436706

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A collection of original essays establishing how wide the intellectual boundaries of narrative theory have become


Theories of the Theatre

Theories of the Theatre

Author: Marvin A. Carlson

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Published: 2018-07-05

Total Pages: 554

ISBN-13: 1501726889

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Beginning with Aristotle and the Greeks and ending with semiotics and post-structuralism, Theories of the Theatre is the first comprehensive survey of Western dramatic theory. In this expanded edition the author has updated the book and added a new concluding chapter that focuses on theoretical developments since 1980, emphasizing the impact of feminist theory.


The World Backwards

The World Backwards

Author: Susan P. Compton

Publisher: London : British Museum Publications

Published: 1978

Total Pages: 150

ISBN-13:

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"The British Library has recently acquired a superb and representative collection of Russian Futurist books, which form a unique record of a modern movement. Based on this material, this book surveys the complexity of Russian futurism, and proviudes an unrivalled collection of illustrations which highlight developments in theatre, graphic design, and art in the years of flowering, 1912-16"--Back cover


Words in Revolution

Words in Revolution

Author: Anna M. Lawton

Publisher: New Academia Publishing, LLC

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 376

ISBN-13: 9780974493473

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In her extensive Introduction, Lawton has highlighted the historical development of the movement and has related futurism both to the Russian national scene and to avant-garde movements worldwide.


Russian Futurist Theatre

Russian Futurist Theatre

Author: Robert Leach

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Published: 2018-03-07

Total Pages: 265

ISBN-13: 1474402453

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Russian Futurist Theatre explores is the first book to comprehensively uncover the Russian futurist theatre in all its virtuosity and diversity.


International Futurism in Arts and Literature

International Futurism in Arts and Literature

Author: Günter Berghaus

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

Published: 2012-10-25

Total Pages: 660

ISBN-13: 3110804220

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This publication offers for the first time an inter-disciplinary and comparative perspective on Futurism in a variety of countries and artistic media. 20 scholars discuss how the movement shaped the concept of a cultural avant-garde and how it influenced the development of modernist art and literature around the world.


Explodity

Explodity

Author: Nancy Perloff

Publisher: Getty Publications

Published: 2017-01-21

Total Pages: 210

ISBN-13: 1606065084

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The artists’ books made in Russia between 1910 and 1915 are like no others. Unique in their fusion of the verbal, visual, and sonic, these books are meant to be read, looked at, and listened to. Painters and poets—including Natalia Goncharova, Velimir Khlebnikov, Mikhail Larionov, Kazimir Malevich, and Vladimir Mayakovsky— collaborated to fabricate hand-lithographed books, for which they invented a new language called zaum (a neologism meaning “beyond the mind”), which was distinctive in its emphasis on “sound as such” and its rejection of definite logical meaning. At the heart of this volume are close analyses of two of the most significant and experimental futurist books: Mirskontsa (Worldbackwards) and Vzorval’ (Explodity). In addition, Nancy Perloff examines the profound differences between the Russian avant-garde and Western art movements, including futurism, and she uncovers a wide-ranging legacy in the midcentury global movement of sound and concrete poetry (the Brazilian Noigandres group, Ian Hamilton Finlay, and Henri Chopin), contemporary Western conceptual art, and the artist’s book. Sound recordings of zaum poems featured in the book are available at www.getty.edu.


Victory Over the Sun

Victory Over the Sun

Author: Aleksei Eliseevich Kruchenykh

Publisher:

Published: 2008-05

Total Pages: 156

ISBN-13: 9780946311194

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This Futurist opera was presented in snowy Petrograd in December 1913 to a riotous audience. The atonal music composed by Mikhail Matiushin accompanied the alogical libretto by Aleksei Kruchenykh, the action taking place in the 10th Land where "the windows of houses all face inside" and "all the paths go up to the earth," while the hands of a clock "both go backwards immediately before dinner." The cardboard costumes by Kazimir Malevich were surfaces lit by his roving colored spotlights, the characters bigger than life. This first English translation by Dr. Evgeny Steiner is accompanied by the Russian facsimile, followed by what is known of the musical score by Mikhail Matiushin, and a selection of Malevich's Cubist costume designs. Contemporary documents, from statements by the artists and photographs, to press reviews complete the contents of Vol. 1. Vol. 2 is a collection of scholarly essays on the Russian Futurist arts of language, music and performance, with Kruchenykh's own contribution to the "New Ways of the Word" first published in 1913. Together, this two volume collection of Victory Over the Sun presents Russian Futurism in all its guises. It is a tool for study, while it invites recreations of it today by theatre groups and those interested in the arts of language.


Handbook of International Futurism

Handbook of International Futurism

Author: Günter Berghaus

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2018-12-17

Total Pages: 984

ISBN-13: 311027356X

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The Handbook of International Futurism is the first reference work ever to presents in a comparative fashion all media and countries in which the movement, initiated by F.T. Marinetti in 1909, exercised a particularly noteworthy influence. The handbook offers a synthesis of the state of scholarship regarding the international radiation of Futurism and its influence in some fifteen artistic disciplines and thirty-eight countries. While acknowledging the great achievements of the movement in the visual and literary arts of Italy and Russia, it treats Futurism as an international, multidisciplinary phenomenon that left a lasting mark on the manifold artistic manifestations of the early twentieth-century avant-garde. Hundreds of artists, who in some phase in their career absorbed Futurist ideas and stylistic devices, are presented in the context of their national traditions, their international connections and the media in which they were predominantly active. The handbook acts as a kind of multi-disciplinary, geographical encyclopaedia of Futurism and gives scholars with varying levels of experience a detailed overview of all countries and disciplines in which the movement had a major impact.


Amateur and Proletarian Theatre in Post-Revolutionary Russia

Amateur and Proletarian Theatre in Post-Revolutionary Russia

Author: Stefan Aquilina

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2021-04-08

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13: 1350170992

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This is the first collection of primary sources that addresses the amateur theatre produced by the workers in the first decade after the Russian Revolution. Newly translated from the Russian, the essays capture both theoretical articulations on the scene – by luminaries such as Alexander Bogdanov, Platon Kerzhentsev, Valerian Pletnev, Alexander Mgebrov and Valentin Smyshliaev – and the more fleeting descriptions and first-hand accounts of the productions staged, accounts and voices which are typically harder to capture. The essays tell a story of unabashed optimism in the creativity of the working classes. They speak of the use of theatre to carve a public and political role in the construction of a new world. The sources, however, also exhibit the flipside of the scene, or the sombre difficulties faced by the amateur actors and the incessant calls to raise standards through professional help. The narrative developed is that of an amateur theatre which began as an autonomous and heterogeneous activity but which by the mid-to-late 1920s was transformed into a regulated practice and a space for cultural programming. The collection makes an important contribution to our understanding of modern theatre: scholarship conventionally tackles the canonical names from the professional world but gives little attention to the more down-to-earth forms of performance taking place in factories, clubs and amateur circles. An introductory essay also highlights the range and significance of the collection and draws links between the essays.