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The sixth sense of the avant-garde : dance, kinaesthesia and the arts in revolutionary Russia

Title
The sixth sense of the avant-garde : dance, kinaesthesia and the arts in revolutionary Russia / Irina Sirotkina and Roger Smith.
Author
Sirotkina, Irina
Publication
  • London ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2017.
  • ©2017

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Additional Authors
Smith, Roger, 1945-
Description
ix, 217 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
Summary
"The touch and movement senses have a large place in the modern arts. This is widely discussed and celebrated, often enough as if it represents a breakthrough in a primarily visual age. This book turns to history to show just how significant movement and the sense of movement were to pioneers of modernism at the turn of the 20th century. It makes this history vivid through a picture of movement in the lives of an extraordinary generation of Russian artists, writers, theatre people and dancers bridging the last years of the tsars and the Revolution. Readers will gain a new perspective on the relation between art and life in the period 1890-1920 in great innovators like the poets Mayakovsky and Andrei Bely, the theatre director Meyerhold, the dancer Isadora Duncan and the young men and women in Russia inspired by her lead, and esoteric figures like Gurdjieff. Movement, and the turn to the body as a source of natural knowledge, was at the centre of idealistic creativity and hopes for a new age, for a 'new man', and this was true both for those who looked forward to the technology of the future and those who looked back to the harmony of Ancient Greece. The book weaves history and analysis into a colourful, thoughtful affirmation of movement in the expressive life."--
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • Criticism, interpretation, etc.
  • History.
Note
  • "This book is a fully rewritten and expanded version of Irina Sirotkina, Shestoe chuvstvo avangarda: tanets, dvizhenie, kinesteziia v zhini poetov i khudozhnikov ..."--Page viii.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction: Movement and exuberant modernism -- 1. The sixth sense -- 2. Search for deeper knowledge -- 3. Expression in dance -- 4. Speaking movement -- 5. By 'the fourth way' -- 6. Thinking with the body -- 7. Art as bodily knowledge.
Call Number
*MGRL 18-2327
ISBN
  • 9781350014312
  • 1350014311
LCCN
2016048840
OCLC
953630548
Author
Sirotkina, Irina, author.
Title
The sixth sense of the avant-garde : dance, kinaesthesia and the arts in revolutionary Russia / Irina Sirotkina and Roger Smith.
Publisher
London ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2017.
Copyright Date
©2017
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Chronological Term
1900-1999
Added Author
Smith, Roger, 1945- author.
Research Call Number
*MGRL 18-2327
JFD 17-1443
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