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 a...

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