Picture 1 of 1

Stock photo

The Sixth Sense of the Avant-Garde: Dance, Kinaesthesia and the Arts in Revoluti - Picture 1 of 1

Sixth Sense of the Avant-Garde : Dance, Kinaesthesia and the Arts in Revolutionary Russia by Roger Smith and Irina Sirotkina (2018, Trade Paperback)

grandeagleretail (964836)

98.8% positive feedback

Price:

$57.86

Free shipping

Estimated delivery Tue, Dec 30 - Sat, Jan 3

Returns:

30 days returns. Buyer pays for return shipping. If you use an eBay shipping label, it will be deducted from your refund amount.

Condition:

Brand New

The Sixth Sense of the Avant-Garde by Irina Sirotkina, Roger Smith. Title The Sixth Sense of the Avant-Garde. GE_Item_ID:137318179;. Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC. Format Paperback.

About this product

Product Identifiers

PublisherBloomsbury Publishing

ISBN-101350087408

ISBN-139781350087408

eBay Product ID (ePID)26038859132

Product Key Features

Number of Pages232 Pages

Publication NameSixth Sense of the Avantgarde : Dance, Kinaesthesia and the Arts in Revolutionary Russia

LanguageEnglish

SubjectNeurology, Russia & the Former Soviet Union, Theater / History & Criticism, Dance / History & Criticism, Dance / Regional & Ethnic, General, Russian & Former Soviet Union

Publication Year2018

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaDrama, Art, Performing Arts, Medical, History

AuthorRoger Smith, Irina Sirotkina

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.6 in

Item Weight10.6 Oz

Item Length8.4 in

Item Width5.4 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceCollege Audience

LCCN2016-048840

Dewey Edition23

ReviewsThis volume examines kinesthesia--the sense of movement--as a foundation of personal knowledge and cultural innovation, claiming primacy of kinesthesia over the other senses in that it affords unmediated contact with the world... The extensive notes and suggestions for further reading compensate and make the book invaluable. Summing Up: Recommended., What makes The Sixth Sense of the Avant-Garde an invaluable scholarly contribution is the persuasive and ambitious argument that the authors, Irina Sirotkina and Roger Smith, present in the book - an argument that extends well beyond literary and artistic studies of modernist practices. Specifically, they seek to reassess longstanding notions on the senses of perception ... [The book] provides an interesting perspective on avant-garde art, offering a wide-ranging overview of the ideas that preoccupied intellectuals at that time. As such, it can be of interest to scholars of various backgrounds. Furthermore, while the authors try to redefine and even dismantle some of the stable categories and bring attention to a concept of the 'knowing body,' they also keep the content lively and engaging for their readers throughout the entire work., "What makes The Sixth Sense of the Avant-Garde an invaluable scholarly contribution is the persuasive and ambitious argument that the authors, Irina Sirotkina and Roger Smith, present in the book - an argument that extends well beyond literary and artistic studies of modernist practices. Specifically, they seek to reassess longstanding notions on the senses of perception ... [The book] provides an interesting perspective on avant-garde art, offering a wide-ranging overview of the ideas that preoccupied intellectuals at that time. As such, it can be of interest to scholars of various backgrounds. Furthermore, while the authors try to redefine and even dismantle some of the stable categories and bring attention to a concept of the 'knowing body,' they also keep the content lively and engaging for their readers throughout the entire work." -- Slavic and East European Journal "This book is a treasure chest of personages and practices-everyone from Kandinsky to Blok, from Scriabin to Shklovsky, and multiple souls in between; everything from Dalcroze Eurythmics to the Foxtrot. It offers dynamic new ways to view the cultural history of this time. It all but exhorts its readers to go out and dance themselves. Many sources were crunched to make this book's chapters, and many exciting roads lead out of them into future projects." -- The Russian Review "This volume examines kinesthesia-the sense of movement-as a foundation of personal knowledge and cultural innovation, claiming primacy of kinesthesia over the other senses in that it affords unmediated contact with the world... The extensive notes and suggestions for further reading compensate and make the book invaluable. Summing Up: Recommended." -- CHOICE, "What makes The Sixth Sense of the Avant-Garde an invaluable scholarly contribution is the persuasive and ambitious argument that the authors, Irina Sirotkina and Roger Smith, present in the book - an argument that extends well beyond literary and artistic studies of modernist practices. Specifically, they seek to reassess longstanding notions on the senses of perception ... [The book] provides an interesting perspective on avant-garde art, offering a wide-ranging overview of the ideas that preoccupied intellectuals at that time. As such, it can be of interest to scholars of various backgrounds. Furthermore, while the authors try to redefine and even dismantle some of the stable categories and bring attention to a concept of the 'knowing body,' they also keep the content lively and engaging for their readers throughout the entire work." - Slavic and East European Journal, "This book is a treasure chest of personages and practices--everyone from Kandinsky to Blok, from Scriabin to Shklovsky, and multiple souls in between; everything from Dalcroze Eurythmics to the Foxtrot. It offers dynamic new ways to view the cultural history of this time. It all but exhorts its readers to go out and dance themselves. Many sources were crunched to make this book's chapters, and many exciting roads lead out of them into future projects." - The Russian Review "This volume examines kinesthesia--the sense of movement--as a foundation of personal knowledge and cultural innovation, claiming primacy of kinesthesia over the other senses in that it affords unmediated contact with the world. Grounding their analysis of this "sixth sense" in historical context, Sirotkina and Smith reference the attraction of late-19th-century Europeans to ancient Hellenic life, citing a joyful universalism that particularly appealed to late czarist and revolutionary-era Russians. Evidencing the spirit of "exuberant modernism," movement--particularly dance--is seen as central to avant-garde culture, infusing poetry, mysticism, literary analysis, graphic art, and theater. Andrei Bely's acute sensitivity to gesture becomes his verse, and Vladimir Mayakovsky is seen to compose "posters, like poems, with his whole body." The celebrated artistic union of Sergei Yesenin and Isadora Duncan comes to life as a shining instance of the primacy of movement across the arts, and Vsevolod Meyerhold develops his biomechanical exercises for training actors. The concluding chapter projects the avant-gardists' primacy of movement to present-day validation of kinesthetic experience as a vital source of knowledge. The translation is labored in places, but the extensive notes and suggestions for further reading compensate and make the book invaluable. Summing Up: Recommended." - CHOICE "What makes The Sixth Sense of the Avant-Garde an invaluable scholarly contribution is the persuasive and ambitious argument that the authors, Irina Sirotkina and Roger Smith, present in the book - an argument that extends well beyond literary and artistic studies of modernist practices. Specifically, they seek to reassess longstanding notions on the senses of perception ... [The book] provides an interesting perspective on avant-garde art, offering a wide-ranging overview of the ideas that preoccupied intellectuals at that time. As such, it can be of interest to scholars of various backgrounds. Furthermore, while the authors try to redefine and even dismantle some of the stable categories and bring attention to a concept of the 'knowing body,' they also keep the content lively and engaging for their readers throughout the entire work." - Slavic and East European Journal, "This book is a treasure chest of personages and practices-everyone from Kandinsky to Blok, from Scriabin to Shklovsky, and multiple souls in between; everything from Dalcroze Eurythmics to the Foxtrot. It offers dynamic new ways to view the cultural history of this time. It all but exhorts its readers to go out and dance themselves. Many sources were crunched to make this book's chapters, and many exciting roads lead out of them into future projects." -- The Russian Review "What makes The Sixth Sense of the Avant-Garde an invaluable scholarly contribution is the persuasive and ambitious argument that the authors, Irina Sirotkina and Roger Smith, present in the book - an argument that extends well beyond literary and artistic studies of modernist practices. Specifically, they seek to reassess longstanding notions on the senses of perception ... [The book] provides an interesting perspective on avant-garde art, offering a wide-ranging overview of the ideas that preoccupied intellectuals at that time. As such, it can be of interest to scholars of various backgrounds. Furthermore, while the authors try to redefine and even dismantle some of the stable categories and bring attention to a concept of the 'knowing body,' they also keep the content lively and engaging for their readers throughout the entire work." -- Slavic and East European Journal "This volume examines kinesthesia-the sense of movement-as a foundation of personal knowledge and cultural innovation, claiming primacy of kinesthesia over the other senses in that it affords unmediated contact with the world... The extensive notes and suggestions for further reading compensate and make the book invaluable. Summing Up: Recommended." -- CHOICE, This book is a treasure chest of personages and practices--everyone from Kandinsky to Blok, from Scriabin to Shklovsky, and multiple souls in between; everything from Dalcroze Eurythmics to the Foxtrot. It offers dynamic new ways to view the cultural history of this time. It all but exhorts its readers to go out and dance themselves. Many sources were crunched to make this book's chapters, and many exciting roads lead out of them into future projects.

TitleLeadingThe

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal792.8094709034

Table Of ContentList of illustrations Preface Acknowledgements Note on text/translation List of abbreviations Introduction: Movement and exuberant modernism Chapter 1 The sixth sense The senses Muscular feeling and kinaesthesia Chapter 2 Search for deeper knowledge The kinaesthetic intellect 'The higher sensitivity' Kinaesthesia and synaesthesia Chapter 3 Expression in dance The new dance The Russian Hellenes 'Ach, the devil take it, they're dancing here again' Chapter 4 Speaking movement The perfect language: Andrei Bely on gesture The dance-word: the creative union of Esenin and Duncan Word plasticity: the budetliane and the bare-footed Chapter 5 By 'the fourth way' The mystic arts From Dalcroze to Gurdjieff 'Presence' Chapter 6 Thinking with the body Mayakovsky dances the fox-trot Brik-dance Who thought up biomechanics? Chapter 7 Art as bodily knowledge Technique Kinaesthesia in culture Further reading Notes Index

SynopsisThis book turns to history to show just how significant movement and the sense of movement were to pioneers of modernism at the turn of the 20th century. It makes this history vivid through a picture of movement in the lives of an extraordinary generation of Russian artists, writers, theatre people and dancers bridging the last years of the tsars and the Revolution. Readers will gain a new perspective on the relation between art and life in the period 1890-1920 in great innovators like the poets Mayakovsky and Andrei Bely, the theatre director Meyerhold, the dancer Isadora Duncan and the young men and women in Russia inspired by her lead, and esoteric figures like Gurdjieff. Movement, and the turn to the body as a source of natural knowledge, was at the centre of idealistic creativity and hopes for a new age, for a 'new man', and this was true both for those who looked forward to the technology of the future and those who looked back to the harmony of Ancient Greece. The book weaves history and analysis into a colourful, thoughtful affirmation of movement in the expressive life.

LC Classification NumberGV1663