Documentary Aesthetics in the Long 1960s in Eastern Europe and Beyond

Clemens Günther, Matthias Schwartz (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

350 Seiten

2023
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-53309-7 (ISBN)

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This book, for the first time, investigates documentary aesthetics as a formative trend in post-war Eastern Europe. Its contributions reconstruct major artistic practices and their theoretical reflections within the broader cultural-political horizon of the turbulent 1960s.

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.

Clemens Günther, Ph.D, Freie Universität Berlin, is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Institute for East European Studies. His research interests comprise the late and post-Soviet historical novel, the cultural history of cybernetics, climate fiction, and the ecological poetics of Russian realism. Matthias Schwartz, Ph.D, is co-head of the program area World Literature at the Leibniz Center for Literary and Cultural Research (ZfL) in Berlin, Germany. His research interests include Eastern European socialist and post-socialist literatures, memory cultures, and popular cultures in a comparative perspective.

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

Erscheinungsdatum	28.12.2023
Reihe/Serie	Studies in Slavic Literature and Poetics ; 67
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	732 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Zeitgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	90-04-53309-5 / 9004533095
ISBN-13	978-90-04-53309-7 / 9789004533097
Zustand	Neuware