The European Avant-Garde – A Hundred Years Later

Polona Tratnik, Ph.D. (1976), is Full Professsor at the University of Ljubljana and Senior Researcher at the Institute IRRIS. She has published monographs and articles on philosophy of art and technology, including Art as Capital: The Intersection of Science, Technology and the Arts (Rowman and Littlefield, 2021).

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Notes on Contributors



Introduction: the Turning and Returning of the Avant-Garde

 Polona Tratnik



PART 1: The Avant-Garde Is Back



1 Revolution Reconsidered: the Three Avant-Garde Traditions

 Sascha Bru

2 Anaphorizing Histories: on the Entanglements of Paleo-, Neo-, and Tardo-Avant-Gardes

 Tyrus Miller

3 A Quest for Avant-Garde: Doing Avant-Garde, Inheriting Avant-Garde

 Polona Tratnik



PART 2: Avant-Garde and Geo-Politics



4 European Avant-Gardes between International and Global

 Miško Šuvakovic

5 Trieste–Ljubljana–Zagreb–Belgrade–Cernigoj–Delak–Micic. Trieste, Ljubljana, Zagreb, Belgrade

 Cernigoj, Delak, Micic. Linking Slovene, Italian and Serbian Avant-Garde

 Tomaž Toporišic



PART 3: The Neglected Avant-Garde Genres and Media



6 Avant-Garde Manifesto

 Lev Kreft

7 An Exercise in Categorization: Avant-Garde Cinema of the 1920s

 Ernest Ženko



PART 4: Expressionism Reconsidered



8 Expressionism and Weimar Cinema

 Darko Štrajn

9 Franz Marc’s Avant-Garde Animal Painting

 Valentina Hribar Sorcan



PART 5: Post-Gravity Art



10 The Avant-Garde Politics of Time: the Case of Post-Gravity Art

 Mojca Puncer

11 Bodies-In-Freedom: from Futurist Aerial Theatre to Space Art

 Maja Murnik



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