Title The vogue for Russia : modernism and the unseen in Britain, 1900-1930 / Caroline Maclean

Published Edinburgh, Scotland : Edinburgh University Press, [2015] ©2015

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 205 pages) : illustrations Contents Intro -- Half-title Page -- Dedication -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Note on Transliteration -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 'Splinters and Mosaics': Bloomsbury Aesthetics Reconsidered -- 2 Russian Aesthetics and British Periodicals: Kandinsky, Sadleir and Rhythm -- 3 Voices of Stones: Mary Butts and Petr Ouspensky's Fourth Dimension -- 4 'That Magic Force that is Montage': Eisenstein's Filmic Fourth Dimension, Borderline and H.D. -- Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Index Summary In what ways was the British fascination with Russian arts, politics and people linked to a renewed interest in the unseen? How did ideas of Russianness and 'the Russian soul' - prompted by the arrival of the Ballets Russes and the rise of revolutionary ideals - attach themselves to the existing British fashion for theosophy, vitalism and occultism? In answering these questions, this study is the first to explore the overlap between Slavophilia and mysticism between 1900 and 1930 in Britain. The main Russian characters that emerge are Fedor Dostoevsky, Boris Anrep, Vasily Kandinsky, Petr Ouspensky and Sergei Eisenstein. The British modernists include Roger Fry, Virginia Woolf, Mary Butts, John Middleton Murry, Michael Sadleir and Katherine Mansfield. Key Features:. Draws on unpublished archive material as well as on periodicals, exhibition catalogues, reviews, diaries, fiction and the visual arts Addresses the omission in modernist studies of the importance of Russian aesthetics and Russian discourses of the occult to British modernism Challenges the dominant Western European and transatlantic focus in modernist studies and provides an original contribution to our understanding of new global modernisms Combines literary studies with aesthetics, modernist history, the history of modern esotericism, film history, periodical studies and science studies Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 172-196) and index Notes Print version record Subject Modernism (Aesthetics) -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century Aesthetics, Russian -- 20th century. LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. Aesthetics, Russian Civilization Civilization -- Foreign influences Modernism (Aesthetics) SUBJECT Great Britain -- Civilization -- Foreign influences Russia -- Civilization -- 20th century Subject Great Britain Russia Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780748647309 0748647309 9781474403504 1474403506

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