Utopia : : The Avant-Garde, Modernism and (Im)possible Life / / ed. by David Ayers, Benedikt Hjartarson, Tomi Huttunen, Harri Veivo.
Utopian hope and dystopian despair are characteristic features of modernism and the avant-garde. Readings of the avant-garde have frequently sought to identify utopian moments coded in its works and activities as optimistic signs of a possible future social life, or as the attempt to preserve hope a...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2015 Part 1 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2015] ©2015 |
Year of Publication: | 2015 |
Language: | English |
Series: | European Avant-Garde and Modernism Studies ,
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (532 p.) |
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Other title: | Frontmatter -- Contents -- About the Series – Sur la collection – Zur Buchreihe -- Introduction -- New People of a New Life -- Ideology and Aesthetics -- “Enemies of Utopia for the sake of its realisation” -- World War I, Modernism and Minor Utopias -- Utopia through Art -- Designing a Peaceful World in a Time of Conflict -- Surrealism’s Utopian Cartographies -- Utopian Failure and Function in Die Eigenart des Ästhetischen -- Language Writing’s Concrete Utopia -- Rationalism and Redemption -- Magnetic Modernism -- Juan Gelman and the Development of a Utopian Poetics -- Utopie und Apokalypse in der österreichischen Kulturzeitschrift Der Brenner (1910–1954) -- Redemption, Utopia and the Avant-Garde -- From the “Transparent Stone Age” to the “Space of the Chalice-Cupola” -- A la recherche d’une sonorité utopique -- Utopian Dimensions in Pedro Cabrita Reis -- Primitivism, Photomontage, Ethnography -- Experimentation and Urban Space -- A Paper Paradise -- A Retreat from Everyday Soviet Life -- Utopian Voyages -- Deconstructing Constructivism in Post-Communist Hungary -- Guerrilla Art in the Streets of Athens -- Communities and Education -- Utopian Futures and Imagined Pasts in the Ambivalent Modernism of the Kibbo Kift Kindred -- New York, Anarchism and Children’s Art -- Children’s Utopia / Fascist Utopia -- The Future in Modernism -- Escape from Utopia -- Sexuality and Desire -- Erotic Utopia – Free Upbringing, Free Sex and Socialism -- Faire jouir le système -- The Non-Oedipal Android -- From Collective Love to Nudism and the Naked City -- The Undercut Utopian Worlds of the Russian Pierrot -- Dystopian Visions and Ideas of Death as a Transformation in Gilbert Clavel’s An Institute for Suicide -- List of Contributors -- Index -- Colour Illustrations |
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Summary: | Utopian hope and dystopian despair are characteristic features of modernism and the avant-garde. Readings of the avant-garde have frequently sought to identify utopian moments coded in its works and activities as optimistic signs of a possible future social life, or as the attempt to preserve hope against the closure of an emergent dystopian present. The fourth volume of the EAM series, European Avant-Garde and Modernism Studies, casts light on the history, theory and actuality of the utopian and dystopian strands which run through European modernism and the avant-garde from the late 19th to the 21st century. The book’s varied and carefully selected contributions, written by experts from around 20 countries, seek to answer such questions as: · how have modernism and the avant-garde responded to historical circumstance in mapping the form of possible futures for humanity?· how have avant-garde and modernist works presented ideals of living as alternatives to the present?· how have avant-gardists acted with or against the state to remodel human life or to resist the instrumental reduction of life by administration and industrialisation? |
Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9783110434781 9783110762518 9783110700985 9783110439687 9783110438673 |
ISSN: | 1869-3393 ; |
DOI: | 10.1515/9783110434781 |
Access: | restricted access |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | ed. by David Ayers, Benedikt Hjartarson, Tomi Huttunen, Harri Veivo. |