Art Without Death: Russian Cosmism

Dan Abbott

, Mars Volta, Pink Floyd and Audioslave. His latest project is a film about the avant-garde musicians of

writing systems, as well as African diaspora art and theories of the avant-garde. Among his publications

– Avant-Garde – Scandal: Remembering the Holocaust after the End of History (2010, co-authored with Andrew

and publications which focus on avant-garde art forms between text and image, including Welt aus

completed his PhD on modernist industrial buildings in journal discourses around avant-garde and tradition

authors and artists of the Russian avant-garde who envisioned modern technology as the pathway to a

, and postcolonial studies, a.o. Her book Stefan Wolpe and the Avant-Garde Diaspora (2012) won the Lewis

del Arte y la Política en los Tiempos del Telón de Acero (2019) and Avant-garde Art and Criticism in

. 1979-1989. Her publications include an essay on Hubert Fichte, Arthur Rimbaud and avant-garde ethnology

Weimar with a dissertation on the avant-garde architect Thilo Schoder. In 1990, she became director of

Film Culture magazine and founder of the Anthology Film Archives he influenced the American avant-garde

book is Hollywood Arensberg: Avant-Garde Collecting in Mid-Century LA (2020), co-authored with Mark

the Cosmopolitan Avant-Garde (with Kathrin Rhomberg, 2013). Bittner is curatorial advisor for bauhaus

University Press (2013). Her next, Paper Revolutions: An Invisible Avant-Garde is forthcoming with MIT. Her

Modernism: India’s Artists and the Avant-Garde – 1922–1947 (2007) and Art and Nationalism in Colonial India

and histories of the avant-garde in the Southern and Eastern Mediterranean and North Africa. He has

from singer-songwriters to avant-garde and ambient sounds to South American and Arabic music – all made

generations of artists who have been influenced by Cosmism since the historical avant-garde.

house of avant-garde collector Egidio Marzona in Berlin to their new domicile – the Japanisches Palais

Imagination: Artists of the Russian Avant-Garde, curated by Boris Groys, presents a selection from the George