Documentary Aesthetics in the Long 1960s in Eastern Europe and Beyond (Studies in Slavic Literature and Poetics)

Günther, Clemens (EDT)/ Schwartz, Matthias (EDT)

Brill（2023/12発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 330 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9789004533097
• DDC分類 791.430947

Full Description

This book is the first to deal with documentary aesthetic practices of the post-war period in Eastern Europe in a comparative perspective. The contributions examine the specific forms and modes of documentary representations and the role they played in the formation of new aesthetic trends during the cultural-political transition of the long 1960s. This documentary first-hand approach to the world aimed to break up unquestioned ideological structures and expose tabooed truths in order to engender much-needed social changes. New ways of depicting daily life, writing testimony or subjective reportage emerged that still shape cultural debates today.

Contents

Contents

Acknowledgements

List of Figures

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

Firsthand Time

 Clemens Günther and Matthias Schwartz

Part 1: Exposing a Painful Past: Modes of Testimony

1 "Document of the Soul:" Varlam Shalamov's Documentary Writing in a Contemporary Context

 Franziska Thun-Hohenstein

2 A Dreyfus Affair for Soviet Children: on the Encoded Poetics of Aleksandra Brushtein's Documentary Prose

 Natasha Gordinsky

3 Supplementing Evidence: Danilo Kiš's Poet(h)ics in the Context of Yugoslav Documentarism of the 1960s

 Tatjana Petzer

4 Hands of Time and Large Numbers in Alexander Kluge's (Post-)Documentary Literature

 Gunther Martens

Part 2: Discovering the Self and the Other: Modes of Expressing Individuality

5 Celebration and Abstraction: the Documentary Mode of Jonas Mekas's Diary Films

 Christian Zehnder

6 Documentary and Poetics Interwoven: Mikhail Kalik's Cinema

 Elena Nekrasova

7 The Technique of Documenting: on the Early Reportages of Ryszard Kapuściński and Hanna Krall

 Matthias Schwartz

Part 3: Refining the Senses: Modes of Self-Reflective Artistic Practices

8 "Dramas of the Fact:" Soviet Conceptualisations of Documentary Theatre in the 1960s

 Anna Hodel

9 "Instead of Approximate Precision—Precise Approximation:" Ian Satunovskii's Poor Poetry

 Georg Witte

10 Reproductions without an Original: the Self-Published Aesthetics of Cold War-Era Copies

 Sarah A. Burgos

Part 4: Exploring the Everyday: Modes of Perceiving Social Issues

11 The Trials of Documenting: Frida Vigdorova's Notes of the Brodsky Court Proceedings

 Anja Tippner

12 The Poetry of Mikhail Sokovnin: an Aesthetic Opposition to the "Literature of Fact"

 Ilya Kukulin

13 "Discourses of Sobriety:" Documentary Aesthetics in Conceptual Art in the United States

 Renate Wöhrer

Index