Irena Makaryk, Virlana Tkacz

Modernism in Kyiv

Jubilant Experimentation

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The first book-length examination of this subject, Modernism in Kyiv is a breakthrough accomplishment that will become a standard volume in the field.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 666
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. März 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 168mm x 38mm
• Gewicht: 1111g
• ISBN-13: 9781442629004
• ISBN-10: 1442629002
• Artikelnr.: 42558921

Autorenporträt

Edited by Irena R. Makaryk and Virlana Tkacz

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
 
Acknowledgments
Permissions
List of Illustrations
A Note on Transliteration
Introduction: Reconnecting Modernisms 3
IRENA R. MAKARYK
PART ONE KYIV: 'SPECIAL AND BEWILDERING'
Les Kurbas Foreword to Victor Auburtin, Art Is Dying (excerpt)
1 Modernism in Kyiv: Jubilant Experimentation
IRENA R. MAKARYK
Serhy Yefremov 'How beautiful Kyiv is' (diary excerpt)
2 'A Theatrical Mecca': The Stages of Kyiv in 1907
MAYHILL C. FOWLER
Pavlo Tychyna 'Dawn'
3 'Special and Bewildering': A Portrait of Late-Imperial
and Early Soviet Kyiv
MICHAEL F. HAMM
Legend of Sweet Michael and the Golden Gates
4 Three Novels, Three Cities
TARAS KOZNARSKY
Tsar Nicholas II and Lev Trotsky On Film
5 Film in Kyiv, 1910-19160
OLEH SYDOR-HYBELYNDA
PART 2 KYIV THE EPICENTRE
Les Kurbas On Rhythm (diary excerpt)
6 In the Epicentre of Abstraction: Kyiv during the Time of Kurbas
DMYTRO HORBACHOV
Volodymyr Koriak 'To the Isles Electric!' (excerpt)
7 The Yiddish Kultur-Lige
GENNADY ESTRAIKH
Pavlo Tychyna 'You Tell Me'
8 Politics and the Ukrainian Avant-garde
MYROSLAV SHKANDRIJ
Les Kurbas On Art (Diary excerpt)
9 Kyiv's Multicultural Theatrical Life, 1917-19260
HANNA VESELOVSKA
PART 3 'FIRE AND MOTION'
Pavlo Tychyna 'In the Orchestra of the Cosmos' (excerpt)
10 Towards a New Vision of Theatre: Les Kurbas's Work
at the Young Theatre in Kyiv
VIRLANA TKACZ
Taras Shevchenko 'The Sky's Unwashed'
Serge Lifar On Movement (excerpt)
11 The Choreographic Avant-garde in Kyiv, 1916-1921:
Bronislava Nijinska and Her École de Mouvement
MARIA RATANOVA
Pavlo Tychyna 'The Highest Power'
12 Kyiv, the 1920s, and Modernism in Music
DAGMARA TURCHYN-DUVIRAK
Pavlo Tychyna 'Lull' (excerpt)
13 Music in the Theatre of Les Kurbas
YANA LEONENKO
PART 4 THE INVISIBLE MADE VISIBLE
Bronislava Nijinska On the Theatre (notebook excerpt)
14 Les Kurbas's Early Work at the Berezil: From Bodies in Motion
to Performing the Invisible
VIRLANA TKACZ
Vladimir Lenin 'Why worship the new?'
15 Abstraction and Ukrainian Futurist
Literature
OLEH S. ILNYTZKYJ
Kliment Redko 'Arm in arm' (autobiography excerpt)
16 The Graphics Arts: From Page Design to Theatre
MYROSLAVA MUDRAK
Pavlo Tychyna 'Rhythm'
17 Dissecting Time/Space: The Scottish Play and the New
Technology of Film
IRENA R. MAKARYK
Natalka Bilotserkivets 'We'll not die in Paris'
18 On the World Stage: The Berezil in Paris and New York
IRENA R. MAKARYK
PART 5 ELEGIES: REFLECTIONS ON THE FUTURE PAST
Serhiy Zhadan 'The End of Ukrainian Syllabotonic Verse'
19 Vsevolod Meyerhold and Les Kurbas
BÉATRICE PICON-VALLIN WITH VERONIKA GOPKO-
PEREVERZEVA
Pericles 'Funeral Oration over the Athenian Dead' (excerpt)
20 Les Kurbas and the Spiritual Foundations of the Ukrainian
Avant-garde
NELLI KORNIENKO
Les Kurbas 'Premonition'
Appendices
1 Production List
2 Kyiv, Historical Timeline
Contributors
Index