Looking Back at the Present: Hedwig Fechheimer's Die Plastik der Aegypter and Tristan Tzara and Étienne Sved's L'Égypte face à face
This article examines Hedwig Fechheimer's 1914 Die Plastik der Aegypter (Egyptian Sculpture) and Tristan Tzara and Étienne Sved's 1954 collaborative book L'Égypte face à face (Egypt Face to Face) and how, bookending the classical European avant-garde period, both took recourse to anci...
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Veröffentlicht in: | Journal of Avant-Garde Studies 2024-04, Vol.4 (1), p.13-46 |
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Zusammenfassung: | This article examines Hedwig Fechheimer's 1914 Die Plastik der Aegypter (Egyptian Sculpture) and Tristan Tzara and Étienne Sved's 1954 collaborative book L'Égypte face à face (Egypt Face to Face) and how, bookending the classical European avant-garde period, both took recourse to ancient Egypt to explain their present moment. While Fechheimer approaches Egyptian artwork via a nascent Cubism, Tzara and Sved reflect on ancient Egypt through nostalgic, Dada-tinted lenses. The presents of Fechheimer, Tzara, and Sved were rife with anti-Semitism and conflict; while Fechheimer avoids politics entirely Tzara and Sved do have a poignantly political purpose. In both cases time is folded, challenging teleological conceptions of historicity. |
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ISSN: | 2589-6369 |