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This book examines the discourse on 'primitive thinking' in early
twentieth century Germany. It explores texts from the social
sciences, writings on art and language and - most centrally -
literary works by Robert Musil, Walter Benjamin, Gottfried Benn and
Robert Muller, focusing on three figurations of alterity prominent
in European primitivism: indigenous cultures, children, and the
mentally ill.
Igor Stravinsky's "The Rite of Spring" was premiered in 1913 by
Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes under the choreography of Vaslav
Nijinsky, in the Theatre des Champs Elysees in Paris. To this day
it is considered the biggest theater scandal of the twentieth
century. With its revolutionary score and choreography, "The Rite
of Spring" can be seen as one of modernism's great breakthrough
events, and it is the most choreographed ballet in the world.
Addressing the ballet's context and history, this anthology
includes a selection of archival documentation alongside
contributions by artists and performers Eleanor Antin, Marc Bauer,
Dara Friedman, Millicent Hodson and Kenneth Archer, Karen Kilimnik,
Sara Masuger, Vaslav Nijinksy, Silke Otto-Knapp, Yvonne Rainer and
Babette Mangolte, Lucy Stein, Alexis Marguerite Teplin, Julie
Verhoeven and Mary Wigman, among others.
This collection aims to contribute to current discussion on the
relationship between literature and knowledge, and attempts to
develop a historical epistemology of literature. The aim is not to
determine the essential epistemological conditions of literature as
such or those of a universalistic author-subject, but instead, to
think about the historicity of literary knowledge starting from the
objectivity of its forms.
This volume explores the usefulness and limitations of the concept
of literary primitivism. The individual essays propose theories of
primitivism and reconstruct its historical and theoretical
background. Using literary examples, they reveal the contours of
literary primitivism and explain its relationship to primitivism in
the visual arts. The overall picture that emerges from the analysis
is of primitivism as a powerful force in the development of
literary modernity.
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