Original scientific paper

https://doi.org/10.17234/ZGB.32.4

Knotting Loops in the European Avant-Garde(s) The Poetic Image in Ezra Pound’s, A. B. Šimić’s and André Breton’s Anti/Ana-Aesthetics, and its Relation to Painting

Aleksandar Mijatović ; Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Rijeka, Rijeka, Croatia

Abstract

The essay offers a (re)construction of an avant-garde network consisting of imagism, expressionism, and surrealism in literature and art. It proposes a reassessment of Ezra
Pound’s and André Breton’s concepts of the poetic image, and compares them to their counterpart in the writing and poetry of Croatian expressionist writer Antun Branko Šimić. Through this reconstruction of one node in the avant-garde network, the paper proposes a theory of avant-garde as a twofold structure of de-figuration and transfiguration, which performs the role of re-figuring reality. This proposal solves a principal tension in Peter Bürger’s argument expounded in "Theorie der Avantgarde".

Keywords

avant-garde; Ezra Pound; A. B. Šimić; André Breton; image

Hrčak ID:

311744

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/311744

Publication date:

20.12.2023.

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