Research Catalog

Title

The sixth sense of the avant-garde : dance, kinaesthesia and the arts in revolutionary Russia / Irina Sirotkina and Roger Smith.

Author

Sirotkina, Irina

Publication

London ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2017.

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Details

Additional Authors

Smith, Roger, 1945-

Subject

• Avant-garde (Aesthetics) > Russia > History > 20th century
• Muscular sense
• Movement, Psychology of
• Dance > Philosophy
• Literature, Experimental > Russia > History and criticism
• Silver age (Russian arts) > History and criticism
• Modernism (Literature) > Russia

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Machine generated contents note: -- List 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.

ISBN

• 9781350014312
• 1350014311
• 9781350014336 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

• 2016048840
• 60002163939

OCLC

• ocn953630548
• 953630548
• SCSB-5883278

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries