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"Küchengespräch" mit Andrei Ustinov

"Rendez-vous with Tristan Tzara: the Russian Avant-Garde and Dada in 1920s Paris"

After Tristan Tzara and Francis Picabia established new faction of Dada in Paris in 1919, they had poets and artists from all over Europe involved in the movement, including the Russians. Some of them lived in Paris before Dada, but most of them just emigrated after the tragic events of 1917 and the bloody Civil War. These young men and women were interested in the Dada movement, bringing with them the zeal and passion of the Russian avant-garde, both literary and figurative. Andrei Ustinov's talk intends to describe the collaboration between Russian and French poets and artists in 1920s Paris, and introduce main protagonists of post-World War I Dada as a pan-European cultural endeavor.

Andrei Ustinov studied at St. Petersburg University and Stanford University. He published multiple articles and coedited several volumes on Russian literary history and history of Russian literary studies, most recent of them are: Vade- mecum: In Honor of Lazar Fleishman (Moscow, 2010), Mikhail Leonovich Gasparov: A Bibliography (Moscow, 2012) and Russian Literary Avant-Garde in Paris: 1920 - 1926 (Moscow, 2014).