Intermediality: The Transformation of Art and Literature in the International Avant-garde, 1945-75

全球交流和Nimai Chatterji档案馆旨在通过Chatterji档案馆的物品和短暂存在，构建1945-75年“先锋派”的全球互动和联系的历史。这个档案包含了一个复杂的国际联系联系，分散在出版物、通信和视觉艺术上。档案的存在、结构和细微差别证明了跨国传播的存在和重要性。这项研究项目将通过这些藏品追踪视觉艺术和文学领域的全球联系。为了重新定位1945-1975年间的“先锋”，该项目将放弃对实验群体或孤立国家的待遇。我的项目将回应这样的挑战，即把1945年想象成一个连贯的、可识别的“前卫”。面对没有考虑到正在进行的殖民代理人战争的战后研究和定义的不足，这项研究将有助于更广泛地关注脱离以欧洲为中心的艺术史的焦点。为了形成跨文化的地缘政治和社会比较，该项目将促进对交流、互动和合作问题的更好理解，这些问题是本收藏的核心。这一合作重点旨在重振档案馆的纸质星历、文件和视觉艺术。这一研究项目以查特吉档案馆的国际关注点为起点；因此，它涉及到彻底的越界。利用建议斩首传统国力概念的文学作品，我将支持联系和全球对话的例子。通过提升档案中可见的小互动，前卫的复杂性可能会得到富有成效的再现。我希望挑战国际关系中普遍存在的强权观，研究社会和文化关系如何在全球权力的宏伟图式中产生因果力量。相反，这项研究将揭示围绕这一作品的制作和收集的一些引人入胜的叙事，这将有助于档案本身的重新激活。我将批判性地看待档案，将其本身视为构建叙事和历史的空间，以及调解对象和短暂的场所。档案的内容不一定是客观的文件，而是查特吉通过他的收藏实践构建的叙事的一部分；我将把档案作为查特吉自己的前卫概念下编纂的叙事的复杂关系来对待。该项目的一个重要重点将是通信以及档案所载的联系和互动的有形记录。Nimai Chatterji自己在给艺术家、诗人和音乐家写作以构建材料档案方面的作用是核心。这些藏品是一种很大的折衷主义，不仅是因为里面的材料，而且是因为它被收集的方式。该项目将提出关于查特吉及其档案在国际流通和对话中的作用的问题。我的研究旨在为将这一收藏带给更广泛的受众做出贡献。通过这个项目，我将利用查特吉档案中的实物、信件和文件来共同突出全球实验交流的无数声音和叙述。这种方法将有助于产生能够促进与这些非凡的收藏密切接触的叙事。

Global exchange and the Nimai Chatterji Archive aims to construct a history of global interaction and connection of the 'avant-garde' 1945-75 through the objects and ephemera of the Chatterji archive. This archive contains a complex nexus of international connections fragmented across publications, correspondence and visual arts. The existence of the archive, its construction and nuances, attests to the existence and importance of transnational communication. This research project will trace global connections in visual arts and literature through the collection. Seeking to remap the 'avant-garde' of 1945-1975, this project will abandon the treatment of experimental groups or nations in isolation. My project will respond to the challenge of conceiving of 1945 as having a coherent and identifiable 'avant-garde' at all. Confronting the inadequacy of studies on and definitions of 'post-war' which do not take account of ongoing colonial proxy wars; this study will contribute to a wider concern about moving away from the eurocentric focus of art histories. Aiming to forge cross-cultural geopolitical and social comparisons, this project will promote greater understanding regarding issues of exchange, interaction and collaboration central to this collection. This focus on collaboration aims to reactivate the paper ephemera, documents and visual art of the archive.This research project takes as its starting point the international focus of the Chatterji archive; it therefore involves a radical transgression of borders. Utilising literature which proposes a decapitation of conventional notions of national power, I will argue in favour of examples of connection and global dialogue. Through elevating small interactions, visible within the archive itself, the complexities of the 'avant-garde' may be productively remapped.I hope to challenge the prevailing conceptions of power in international relations, examining how social and cultural relations have causal power in the grander schemata of global power. Conversely, this study will expose a number of engaging narratives surrounding the production and collection of this body of works, which will contribute to the reactivation of the archive itself.I will view the archive critically, as a space itself for the construction of narrative and histories, and a site for the mediation of objects and ephemera. The contents of the archive will not be treated as necessarily objective documents, but as forming part of a narrative which Chatterji constructed through his practice of collection; I will approach the archive as a complex nexus of narratives codified under Chatterji's own conception of the 'avant-garde'. A significant focus of the project would be in correspondence and the tangible records ofconnection and interaction which the archive contains. Nimai Chatterji's own role in writing to artists, poets and musicians in order to construct the archive of material is central. The collection is one of great eclecticism, due not only to the material located therein, but also to the ways in which it was collected. The project will raise questions regarding the role of Chatterji, and his archive, in international circulation and dialogues. My research is intended to contribute to bringing this collection to a wider audience. Through this project I will utilise objects, correspondence and documentation within the Chatterji archive to highlight together numerous voices and narratives of global experimental exchange. This approach will help to generate narratives capable of fostering close engagement with this remarkable collection.