Acting in Front of the Camera: Avant-Garde Approaches to Staged Photography

Strożek, Przemysław

doi:10.1057/9781137474377_12

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“…Its programme acted as a bridge between Russian and Western European conceptions of Constructivism and sought to form links with the Western European art scene. 47 This effort was evident in the magazine itself; the second issue, for example, included a greeting to the editors of the Bucharest magazine Contimporanul, and in the winter 1924 issue, the editors congratulated Ma on entering its tenth year. 48 The second issue also included a message from Marinetti which expressed fraternal feelings for Futurists in Poland: "With warm sympathies for my Futurist avant-gardist friends from Blok.…”

Section: Ma In the International Network Of Avant-garde Journalsmentioning

confidence: 99%

2020

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This essay explores a common feature of avant-garde periodicals after the First World War, namely magazine advertisements which functioned as 'network diagrams'. Through their morphological and visual similarities, these diagrams constructed a virtual avant-garde community and sought to provide each magazine with a unique rôle. We examine magazines which look similar at first sight but diverge substantially in their operation and intention. Our investigation focusses on the question of whether they were in fact all imagining the same community. This diachronic examination of network diagrams shows that their nodes changed quite rapidly. Despite having exerted an enormous influence throughout Europe, Futurism was gradually replaced in the second half of the 1920s by International Constructivism. Our analysis begins in 1924, when Marinetti issued his manifesto Le Futurisme mondial, an ambitious attempt to re-conquer Futurism's place within the international avant-garde. Our focus is not so much on the manifesto's reception history, but rather on analysing how the artists and groups mentioned in Marinetti's manifesto defined their own position in the avant-garde scene, whether in support of or in opposition to Futurism.

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Section: Ma In the International Network Of Avant-garde Journalsmentioning

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2020

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Acting in Front of the Camera: Avant-Garde Approaches to Staged Photography

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