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档案的物品和短暂的历史，构建1945- 1975年“前卫”的全球互动和联系的历史。这个档案包含了复杂的国际联系，分散在出版物、通信和视觉艺术中。档案的存在，它的结构和细微差别，证明了跨国传播的存在和重要性。这个研究项目将通过这些藏品来追踪视觉艺术和文学的全球联系。这个项目试图重新描绘1945-1975年的“前卫”，将放弃孤立地对待实验群体或国家。我的项目将回应这样的挑战：把1945年想象成一个连贯的、可识别的“先锋派”。面对没有考虑到正在进行的殖民代理战争的关于“战后”的研究和定义的不足；这项研究将有助于更广泛地关注远离以欧洲为中心的艺术史焦点。该项目旨在建立跨文化的地缘政治和社会比较，将促进对交流、互动和合作等问题的更好理解。这种对合作的关注旨在重新激活档案的纸质蜉蝣、文件和视觉艺术。本研究项目以查特吉档案的国际焦点为出发点；因此，它涉及一种激进的越界行为。我将利用那些提出对国家权力的传统观念进行斩首的文献，来论证联系和全球对话的例子。通过提升小的互动，在档案本身可见，“前卫”的复杂性可能被有效地重新映射。我希望挑战国际关系中普遍存在的权力概念，研究社会和文化关系如何在全球权力的更大图式中产生因果关系。相反，这项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。我将以批判的眼光看待档案，将其视为构建叙事和历史的空间，以及物体和蜉蝣中介的场所。档案的内容不一定被视为客观的文件，而是Chatterji通过他的收藏实践构建的叙事的一部分；我将把这些档案作为一种复杂的叙事联系，在查特吉自己的“前卫”概念下编纂。该项目的一个重要重点将是通信和档案中包含的联系和互动的有形记录。Nimai Chatterji自己在给艺术家、诗人和音乐家写信以构建材料档案方面的作用是中心的。这个收藏是一个伟大的折衷主义，不仅由于其中的材料，而且由于它的收集方式。该项目将提出有关查特吉及其档案在国际流通和对话中的作用的问题。我的研究是为了把这个合集带给更广泛的读者。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个非凡的集合密切接触的叙述。

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.