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READING, SEEING, CONCEIVING IN THE BALTIC, OR DON’T JUDGE A MODERNIST BOOK BY ITS COVER

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Kreslins J.

ARS

2012

vol. 45

issue 1

26 – 36

In the Baltic, the beginning of the 20th century ushered in a dramatic increase in book production, as decade-old restraints on freedom of artistic creation lost much of their efficacy. Much more than text was transformed. Artists contributed to transforming book covers and setting them aside as an open space for experimentation and inquiry. They explored how handwriting could encapsulate the various moods of the era and its moments of upheaval, experimented with notions of ephemerality and, subsequently, with the encounter with the beholder.

NEW HISTORIES AND NEW METHODS IN ENGAGING THE EASTERN EUROPEAN AVANT-GARDES. INTRODUCTION

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Mansbach S., Friedman V. A., Kreslins J.

ARS

2012

vol. 45

issue 1

3 – 5

The contributors to this volume (historians of art, of literature, of linguistics, and of architecture, as well as a practicing artist), acknowledging the tectonic shifts in academic practice and historical self-awareness prompted by post-Soviet and post-Yugoslav events, rethink the nature, subjects, and objectives of the avant-garde, both the historical ones of the early twentieth century and their more recent iterations. The present selection affords a rich introduction to some of the most imaginative thinking currently being focused on Eastern European modernism.

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READING, SEEING, CONCEIVING IN THE BALTIC, OR DON’T JUDGE A MODERNIST BOOK BY ITS COVER

NEW HISTORIES AND NEW METHODS IN ENGAGING THE EASTERN EUROPEAN AVANT-GARDES. INTRODUCTION