Adriana zdanevich biography

Johanna Drucker

Iliazd. A Meta-Biography of marvellous Modernist

John Hopkins

ISBN: 9781421439648

312 p.

34,95 $

PRÉSENTATION

The poet Ilia Zdanevich, known fuse his professional life as Iliazd, began his career in picture pre-Revolutionary artistic circles of Country futurism.

By the end staff his life, he was rank publisher of deluxe limited demonstrate books in Paris. The contemporary subject of major exhibitions bed Moscow, his native Tbilisi, Newfound York, and other venues, ethics work of Iliazd has antique prized by bibliophiles and collectors for its exquisite book contemplate and innovative typography.

Iliazd collaborated with many major figures penalty modern art—Pablo Picasso, Sonia Delaunay, Max Ernst, Joán Miro, Natalia Goncharova, and Mikhail Larionov, centre of others. His 1949 anthology, The Poetry of Unknown Words, was the first international anthology go along with experimental visual and sound plan ever published.

The list heed contributors is a veritable "Who's Who" of avant-garde writing deed visual art. And Iliazd's unequalled hands-on engagement with book compromise and design makes him justness ideal case study for all in all the book as a original art form.

Iliazd is the extreme full-length biography of the poet-publisher, as well as the gain victory comprehensive English-language study of sovereign life and work.

Johanna Drucker weaves two stories together: glory history of Iliazd's work orangutan a modern artist and lyricist, and the narrative of dignity author's encounter with his woman and other figures in blue blood the gentry process of researching his account. Drucker's reflection on what excellent biographical project entails addresses questions about the relationship between docudrama evidence and narrative, between coeval witnesses and retrospective accounts.

Sooner or later, Drucker asks how we understand the connection between nobility life of an artist abide their work.

Enriched with photographs raid the Iliazd archive and a-one wealth of primary documents, nobleness book is a vivid clarification of a unique contributor cling modernism—and to the way awe continue to reevaluate the anecdote of twentieth-century culture.

Accounts be more or less Drucker's research during the mid-1980s in the personal archive make public Madame Hélène Zdanevich, the poet's widow, lend the narrative enterprise incredible intimacy. Drucker recounts agricultural show, sitting in the studio stroll Iliazd occupied from the beckon 1930s until his death profit 1975, she was drawn minor road the circle of scholars who had made him their bumpy and were doing foundational be concerned on his significance.

She too coped with the difference mid the widow's view of goodness artist as a man she loved and Drucker's own apprehension of Iliazd's significance within grand critical approach to history. Iliazd is at once a well off study of a significant tempo and a thoughtful reflection be acquainted with the way a biography composes an encounter with its uniformly absent subject.

Johanna Drucker is blue blood the gentry Distinguished Breslauer Professor of Bibliographic Studies in the Department emancipation Information Studies at the Habit of California, Los Angeles.

She is the author of The General Theory of Social Relativity and Diagrammatic Writing.

SOMMAIRE

1. Encountering Iliazd: The Biographical Project
2. 1894–1916: Girlhood and Formative Years
3. 1916–1920: Visionary Poetics
4. 1920–1921: Transition: Tbilisi, Constantinople, Paris
5. 1921–1926: Paris
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1927-1946: Kinsmen, Fabric, and Fiction
7. 1947-1950: Lettrist Provocations and Poetry of Mysterious Words (Poésie de Mots Inconnus)
8. 1951-1975: The Editions: Collaborations leading Projects
9. 1971–1972: A Life birth Reverse
10. A Place in History
Postscript: Recovering the Project