Zenithism (1921-1927)

A Yugoslav Avant-Garde Anthology
Herausgeber: Boskovic, Aleksandar; Teref, Steven

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Produktbeschreibung

This is the first-ever English language anthology of zenithism, an eclectic avant-garde movement unique to the Yugoslav region that existed 1921-1927.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Academic Studies Press
• Seitenzahl: 694
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Dezember 2023
• Abmessung: 229mm x 178mm
• ISBN-13: 9781644697214
• ISBN-10: 1644697211
• Artikelnr.: 62392655

Autorenporträt

Aleksandar Bošković teaches at Columbia University. He is the author of  The Poetic Humor in Vasko Popa’s Oeuvre (in Serbian, 2008) and co-editor of The Fine Feats of the Five Cockerels Gang (2022). Steven Teref's translations include Ana Ristović's Directions for Use, shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award, Best Translated Book Award, and National Translation Award, and Novica Tadić's Assembly. His translations have appeared in The New Yorker, Brooklyn Rail, Columbia Journal, and elsewhere. He is a member of the Third Coast Translators Collective.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments List of Translators List of Illustrations Pronunciation Guide Introduction: You Have to Be a Zenithist The Barbarians are Coming, or a Savage Rhythm Introduction Man and Art (February 1921), Ljubomir Mici
The Manifesto of Zenithism (June 1921), Ljubomir Mici
, Yvan Goll, and Boko Tokin The Spirit of Zenithism (September 1921), Ljubomir Mici
The Barbarogenius, the Balkanization of Europe, and Cultural Nihilism Introduction Zenith Manifesto 1922 (February 1922), Ljubomir Mici
Zenithism as the Balkan Totalizer of New Life and New Art (February 1923), Ljubomir Mici
Effect on Defect (1923), Marijan Mikac in the name of zenithism [foreword], Ljubomir Mici
here 360 ÷ 180 = 0 joyous lament zenith-specter a riot of atoms rush up the rope a poem for the twentieth dog a prayer of the blessed curse a fanatic's nights of love bachelor tax against gossips man's tango with a flea the guard on the rhine predicts effect on defect from Archipenko: New Plastics (September 1923) Toward Opticoplastics, Ljubomir Mici
Nemo propheta in patria (February 1924), Various anonymous Zenithosophy: or the Energetics of Creative Zenithism (October 1924), Ljubomir Mici
Antisocial Art Needs to be Destroyed (December 1924), Ljubomir Mici
The New Art (December 1924), Ljubomir Mici
from The Monkey Phenomenon (1925) The New Zenithist Art, Marijan Mikac Airplane without an Engine (1925), Ljubomir Mici
Barbarism as Culture (November-December 1925), Risto Ratkovi
Anti-Europe (1926), Ljubomir Mici
Beyond-Sense and Anti-Europe the barbarogenius barbarian omelet hey slavs syphon-soda-blood radio in the balkans bim bam boom made in england avala, a tomb in the sky oh, balkan cavavan slender snakes blossom Typogram (April 1926), Ljubomir Mici
Zenithism through the Prism of Marxism (December 1926), Dr. M. Rasinov (Ljubomir Mici
) The First Road of the Barbarogenius: Cinépoetry and the Radio-Film Introduction Cinema Poems (October 1920), Boko Tokin Paris Burns (October 1921), Yvan Goll Film and the Future of Humanity (December 1921), Branko Ve Poljanski Shimmy at the Latin Quarter Graveyard (March 1922), Ljubomir Mici
Damn Your Hundred Gods (Rescue Car) (October 1922), Ljubomir Mici
Prologue by a Madman Before a Legion of Exceptionally Wise Flies Categorical Imperative of the Zenithist School of Poetry Zenithism: Second Attack of the Barbarians Zenithist Barbarogenics in 30 Acts from Radio-Film and the Zenithist Vertical of the Spirit (April 1923), Ljubomir Mici
The Second Road of the Barbarogenius: The Hybrid Novel, Prose Poetry, and the Serpentinella Introduction Here I Am! (January 1921), Branko Ve Poljanski (as Virgil Poljanski) Under the Sign of the Circle (February 1921), Branko Ve Poljanski A Lasso around the Holy Mother's Neck (March 1922), Branko Ve Poljanski The Beauty of a Horse and the Face of Queen Zita (March 1922), Branko Ve Poljanski Dada Causal Dada (May 1922), Branko Ve Poljanski Codes of the Dada-Jok State (May 1922), Branko Ve Poljanski 33 Seconds (May 1922), Branko Ve Poljanski 2 ÷ 2 = 1 (July-August 1922), Branko Ve Poljanski Radiograms (1922), Branko Ve Poljanski 77 Suicides (1923), Branko Ve Poljanski Panic under the Sun (1924), Branko Ve Poljanski No! C'mon, Now! [foreword], Ljubomir Mici
Manifesto Alarm On Train Tracks Longing At the Hair Salon Graveyard Express Poem #13 Trip to Brazil Tick-Tock like a Crab in a Tailcoat Blind Man Number 52 Arise TB Sing Sing We Ride the Himalayas You, Belgrade, You God Beefsteak Joyous Poem Topsy-Turvy (1926), Branko Ve Poljanski S.O.S. Manifesto Contraidioticon Eros 300,000 Punches per Second The Panopticon Passes through a Mirror The Laughter of Rifles A Steamboat in the Appendix Nihilon Whistling Face Mariner's Bell You Have Beautiful Eyes, Lucia Dusk Poem About Him The Third Road of the Barbarogenius: Conceptual Writing Introduction The Sexual Equilibrium of Money (1925), MID The Metaphysics of Nothing (1926), MID Form Devours the Spirit [I] (April 1926), MID Form Devours the Spirit [II] (May 1926), MID A Tobacconist in Literature (November 15, 1925), Anonymous Review of The Sexual Equilibrium of Money (April 1926), Anonymous Review of The Metaphysics of Nothing (May 1926), Anonymous The Barbarogenius at the Gates: Zenithist Theater, Soirées, and Public Interventions Introduction Zenithist Theater (Zagreb, December 16, 1922), Anonymous The First Zenithist Soirée (Belgrade, January 3, 1923), Anonymous The Second Zenithist Soirée (Zagreb, January 31, 1923), Anonymous A Zenithist Soirée by Marijan Mikac (Petrinja, August 18, 1923), Anonymous A Zenithist Evening of Sensation (April 1925), Branko Ve Poljanski The Marinetti and Poljanski Dialogue (November-December 1925), Branko Ve Poljanski Rabindranath Tagore and the Zenithist Protests (December 1926), Anonymous Open Letter to Rabindranath Tagore (December 1926), Ljubomir Mici
, and Branko Ve Poljanski The Nadir of Zenithism Introduction The Red Rooster (1927), Branko Ve Poljanski Dogs Bark and Poets Sing 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Afterword: The Zenithist Legacy Bibliography Index