Utopia : : The Avant-Garde, Modernism and (Im)possible Life / / ed. by David Ayers, Benedikt Hjartarson, Tomi Huttunen, Harri Veivo.

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• MitwirkendeR: Adamowicz, Elza,; Archino, Sarah,; Armond, Kate,; Ayers, David,; Bachman, Erik,; Balázs, Imre József,; Baschmakoff, Natalia,; Brauer, Fae,; Brolsma, Marjet,; Bru, Sascha,; Cooper, Sam,; Demoor, Marysa,; Dijck, Cedric Van,; Dittrich, Joshua,; Drakopoulou, Konstantina,; Ender, Markus,; Forgács, Éva,; Fürhapter, Ingrid,; Hakopian, Sylvia,; Hjartarson, Benedikt,; Jrade, Cathy L.,; Kangaslahti, Kate,; Lobbes, Tessa,; Lozier, Claire,; Marchesini, Irina,; Marques, Bruno,; Paldam, Camilla Skovbjerg,; Petrushanskaya-Averbakh, Elena,; Pollen, Annebella,; Posman, Sarah,; Saunders, Max,; Sjöberg, Sami,; Stounbjerg, Per,; Tanaka, Jun,; Toivola, Riku,; Tokarev, Dmitrii,; Watten, Barrett,
• HerausgeberIn: Ayers, David,; Hjartarson, Benedikt,; Huttunen, Tomi,; Veivo, Harri,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: European Avant-Garde and Modernism Studies , 4
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (532 p.)

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?

Table of Contents

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