Rêvenance: A Zine of Hauntings from Underground Histories. Issue 6

Rêvenance: A  Zine of Hauntings From Underground Histories is the flagship journal of the Revenant Editions series, dedicated to the forgotten or untold histories of 19th Century avant-garde and other countercultures. It includes essays, translations, and many experimental forms of historical writing and research that connect those traditions to continuing radical communities today.

Special Issue: Avant-Garde Theatrical Riots; focusing on Experimental Historiography, French Romanticism and Hugo's Hernani & Les Burgraves, Symbolism and Jarry's Ubu Roi, Dada, Fluxus, and Lettrism.

This special issue of Rêvenance contains a single, meticulously researched, 40-page experimental essay by the journal’s editor Olchar Lindsann, “Theatres of War in the Assault on Culture: A Simultaneous History of Theatrical Riots and the Avant-Garde, 1830-1970”. Written in response to Kolomiets’s essay “Who Governs the History of Art?” from the premier issue, this study investigates the strategies, tactics, and results of nine organized interventions by and/or against avant-garde collectives over a century and a half – presented all at once, as if describing one single multi-dimensional event. This experimental compositional technique reveals surprising and instructive similarities and differences in avant-garde community and strategy over the years, and emphasizes the continuity and inter-generational solidarity of this counterculture.

46 pgs on folded 8.5”x14”. April, A.Da. 102/A.H. 189 (2019)
$6.00 + s/h