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

全球交流和Nimai Chatterji档案旨在通过Chatterji档案的对象和短暂性来构建1945-75年“前卫”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网络，分散在出版物、信件和视觉艺术中。档案的存在，它的建设和细微差别，证明了跨国通信的存在和重要性。这个研究项目将通过收集来追踪视觉艺术和文学的全球联系。为了重新描绘1945-1975年的“先锋派”，这个项目将放弃孤立地对待实验群体或国家。我的项目将回应这样一个挑战，即把1945年想象成一个连贯的、可识别的“先锋派”。面对不考虑正在进行的殖民代理人战争的研究和“战后”的定义的不足，这项研究将有助于更广泛地关注远离欧洲中心的艺术史的重点。该项目旨在建立跨文化的地缘政治和社会比较，将促进对该系列核心的交流，互动和合作问题的更好理解。这种合作的重点是重新激活档案馆的纸质蜉蝣、文件和视觉艺术。这个研究项目的出发点是查特吉档案馆的国际焦点;因此，它涉及到一个彻底的跨越国界。利用文献，提出了一个斩首的传统概念的国家权力，我会说，在连接和全球对话的例子。通过提升小的相互作用，在档案本身可见，“前卫”的复杂性可能会被富有成效地重新映射。我希望挑战国际关系中的权力的流行概念，研究社会和文化关系如何在全球权力的更大图式中具有因果力量。相反，本研究将揭示围绕这些作品的生产和收集的一些引人入胜的叙述，这将有助于档案本身的重新激活。我将批判地看待档案，作为一个空间本身的叙事和历史的建设，以及一个网站的调解对象和蜉蝣。档案的内容将不被视为必然客观的文件，但作为一个叙事的一部分，查特吉通过他的收集实践构建;我将接近档案作为一个复杂的叙事编纂下查特吉自己的概念“先锋”的关系。该项目的一个重要重点将是档案中包含的通信和联系和互动的有形记录。Nimai Chatterji自己在给艺术家、诗人和音乐家写信以构建材料档案方面的作用至关重要。该集合是一个伟大的折衷主义，不仅是由于材料位于其中，但也以它被收集的方式。该项目将提出关于Chatterji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些收藏品带给更广泛的受众做出贡献。通过这个项目，我将利用Chatterji档案中的物品，信件和文件来突出全球实验交流的众多声音和叙述。这种方法将有助于产生能够促进与这一非凡收藏密切接触的叙述。

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.