Iliazd : a meta-biography of a modernist / Johanna Drucker.

"The author has constructed a chronicle of the life of Ilia Zdanevich (known as Iliazd), an important writer and artist in Russian and French modernism, and enriched this chronicle with commentary on the process of writing a biography and a discussion of the twentieth-century avant-garde. The author originally researched Iliazd with the help of his widow many years ago, and she revisited her notes taken at that time with an experienced scholar's critical distance"-- Provided by publisher.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Note on Spelling -- 1 Encountering Iliazd: The Biographical Project -- Beginning: The rue Mazarine, Winter 1985 -- Time Travel -- The Missing Manuscript -- Work Routines -- Chronologies and Evidence -- Iliazd's Books -- The Biographical Project -- 2 1894-1916: Childhood and Formative Years -- Initial Encounters with the Evidence -- Apocryphal Tales -- Introduction to Futurism (1910s) -- Formal and Personal Exchanges -- Larionov and Goncharova -- Pirosmani -- Who Is Iliazd? Evidence and Absence -- 3 1916-1920: Futurist Poetics

The Creation of Forty-One Degrees -- Tbilisi -- Activities of Forty-One Degrees -- Poetics -- Publications -- Zaum -- How We Came to Know about Zaum -- Russian Futurism and Artists' Books -- The Aslaablitchia Cycle: The Five Plays (Dras) -- Design Development in the Dras -- Reflections on Modernism and the Avant-Garde Book -- 4 1920-1921: Transition: Tbilisi, Constantinople, Paris -- Displacement -- The Enormity of History -- 5 1921-1926: Paris -- The New Context -- Lectures and Milieu -- The Bearded Heart (Coeur à Barbe), July 1923 -- Interpretation of the Events -- Ledentu

Anticlimax, 1923-1926 -- 6 1927-1946: Family, Fabric, and Fiction -- Taboos about the Personal Realm -- Marriage, Work, and Novels -- Changes of Circumstances and New Books -- Second Marriage -- Notes from the Dead and Boundary Lines -- 7 1947-1950: Lettrist Provocations and Poetry of Unknown Words (Poésie de Mots Inconnus) -- Letters from the Past -- Into the Present: The Lettrists -- 8 1951-1975: The Editions: Collaborations and Projects -- Deluxe Publications -- Books and Biography -- Editions -- Skinnybones (La Maigre) (1951-1952) -- Treatise on Ballet (Traité de Balet) (1953)

Horses at Midnight (Chevaux de Minuit) (1956) -- Tale of the North (Récit du Nord) (1956) -- Intangible Wake (Sillage Intangible) (1958) and A Hint (Un Soupçon) (1965) -- Modernism Vanishing: A Day in the Country with Michel Guino -- Editions, Continued -- The Wandering Friar (Le Frère Mendiant) (1959) -- Poems and Woodcuts (Poèmes et Bois) (1961) -- Sentence without Words (Sentence sans Paroles) (1961) and The Twelve Portraits of the Celebrated Orbandale (Les Douze Portraits du Célèbre Orbandale) (1962)

65 Maximiliana, the Illegal Practice of Astronomy (65 Maximiliana, ou l'Exercice Illégal de l'Astronomie) and The Art of Seeing (L'Art de Voir) (1964) -- The Georgian Itinerary of Ruy Gonzales de Clavijo and the Churches in the Vicinity of Atabegat (L'Itinéraire Géorgien de Ruy Gonzales de Clavijo et les Eglises aux confins de l'Atabégat) (1966) -- Roger Lacourière, Fisher of Plates (Rogelio Lacourière, Pêcheur de Cuivres) (1968) -- Milestones -- The Grotesque Courtesan (Le Courtisan Grotesque) (1974) -- Work in the Form of a Constellation -- 9 1971-1972: A Life in Reverse -- Recapitulation

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