Featured Research Project
Decolonising the Avant-Garde: With Isabel Wünsche (Constructor University, Bremen), Bru began a new collaborative project that considers how to decolonise the post-1945 history and notion of the avant-garde. More information here.
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Work In ProgressA new book, co-authored with Tyrus Miller (University of California, Irvine), and provisionally entitled Anachronic Avant-Garde. A Century of Constructing History in the Image of Art, has been in the making for several years now. It will be the first book to articulate a theory of avant-garde practices as they have manifested themselves across the arts on a global scale from the early twentieth century into the early twenty-first. Unearthing hitherto undervalued facets of the early twentieth-century avant-garde it is to hint at an alternative and ongoing social history of the avant-garde.
Another new book, tentatively entitled The Formless Infant, will study the early twentieth-century avant-garde's attempts to articulate alternative figurations and views of childhood and infancy in film, literature, painting, theatre, music and architecture. It will argue that not Romanticism but the early twentieth-century avant-garde was perhaps the last to undertake an orchestrated attempt at altering the modern understanding of the child through art, to the aim of upsetting the social status quo.
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Trained in general literature, Sascha Bru has a long-standing interest in the art of literature. While his work has increasingly also come to deal with other art forms and media, literature is always on his radar and often functions as his point of departure. Bru studies avant-garde writing, among others, as a director of the m dr n research lab at the University of Leuven. Learn more here.
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Photo centre right on 'About' page: Tryvannstarnet under construction June 1961 by Trarir. Wikimedia Commons, licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license. Image top right there and on this page: detail from Ana Hatherly, The streets of Lisbon (1977). Collage on paper on hardboard from the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum, Modern Collection, Lisbon, Portugal. Inv.: 91P742. Photo: Pedro Ribeiro Simões. CC by 2.0 Deed. Source. |