A cultural history of the avant-garde in the Nordic countries 1900-1925 / / edited by Hubert van den Berg ... [et al.] ; editorial assistant, Marianne lholm.

• Superior document: Avant garde critical studies ; 28
• TeilnehmendeR: Van den Berg, Hubert.; lholm, Marianne.
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Series: Avant garde critical studies ; 28.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (653 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

A Cultural History of the Avant-Garde in the Nordic Countries 1900-1925 is the first publication to deal with the avant-garde in the Nordic countries at the start of the twentieth century. The essays cover a wide range of avant-garde manifestations in arts and culture: literature, the visual arts, painting as well as photography, architecture and design, film, radio, and performing arts like music, theatre and dance. It is the first major historical work to consider the Nordic avant-garde in a transnational perspective which includes all the arts and to discuss the role of the avant-garde not only within the aesthetic field, but in a broader cultural context. It examines the social and cultural context of the avant-garde: its media, its locations, its reception and audiences, the transmissions between Scandinavia and Europe, and its cultural consequences. The essays trace the connections between the avant-garde and the cultural discourses of contemporary currents such as revolutionary socialism, radical nationalism and occultism, and discuss questions of gender, ideology and politics, geographical location and technological innovation. The cultural history thus focuses on the role of the avant-garde in shaping the ideas of cultural modernity in the Nordic countries.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / Hubert van den Berg , Irmeli Hautamäki , Benedikt Hjartarson , Torben Jelsbak , Rikard Schönström , Per Stounbjerg , Tania Ørum and Dorthe Aagesen -- PREFACE / Hubert van den Berg , Irmeli Hautamäki , Benedikt Hjartarson , Torben Jelsbak , Rikard Schönström , Per Stounbjerg , Tania Ørum and Dorthe Aagesen -- THE EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY AVANT-GARDE AND THE NORDIC COUNTRIES. AN INTRODUCTORY TOUR D’HORIzON / Hubert van den Berg -- NORDIC ICONS IN THE EUROPEAN AVANT-GARDES / Hubert van den Berg , Irmeli Hautamäki , Benedikt Hjartarson , Torben Jelsbak , Rikard Schönström , Per Stounbjerg , Tania Ørum and Dorthe Aagesen -- REBELS AND RENEGADES – STRINDBERG, ARTAUD AND THE AVANT-GARDE / Per Stounbjerg -- MUNCH’S IMPACT ON EUROPE / Erik Mørstad -- DIE ASTA AND THE AVANT-GARDE / Bodil Marie Stavning Thomsen -- “THE MANIFOLD IN ONE / AND THE ONE MANIFOLD” – ASTA NIELSEN AS AN ICON FOR THE EUROPEAN AVANT-GARDE / Geert Buelens -- NORDIC ARTISTS IN THE EUROPEAN METROPOLISES / Hubert van den Berg , Irmeli Hautamäki , Benedikt Hjartarson , Torben Jelsbak , Rikard Schönström , Per Stounbjerg , Tania Ørum and Dorthe Aagesen -- NORDIC WRITERS AND ARTISTS IN PARIS BEFORE, DURING AND AFTER WORLD WAR I / Frank Claustrat -- ACADÉMIE MATISSE AND ITS RELEVANCE IN THE LIFE AND WORK OF SIGRID HJERTÉN / Shulamith Behr -- JEAN BÖRLIN AND LES BALLETS SUÉDOIS / Frank Claustrat -- “FROM THE NORTH COMES THE LIGHT TO US!” – SCANDINAVIAN ARTISTS IN FRIEDRICHSHAGEN AT THE TURN OF THE CENTURY / Gertrude Cepl-Kaufmann and Anne M. N. Sokoll -- BERLIN AND THE SWEDISH AVANT-GARDE – GAN, NELL WALDEN, VIKING EGGELING, AXEL OLSON AND BENGT ÖSTERBLOM / Jan Torsten Ahlstrand -- ICELANDIC ARTISTS IN THE NETWORK OF THE EUROPEAN AVANT-GARDE – THE CASES OF JÓN STEFÁNSSON AND FINNUR JÓNSSON / Hubert van den Berg and Benedikt Hjartarson -- LOCATIONS OF THE NORDIC AVANT-GARDE / Hubert van den Berg , Irmeli Hautamäki , Benedikt Hjartarson , Torben Jelsbak , Rikard Schönström , Per Stounbjerg , Tania Ørum and Dorthe Aagesen -- THE AVANT-GARDE AND THE MARKET / Sven-Olov Wallenstein -- PROMOTING THE YOUNG – INTERACTIONS BETWEEN THE AVANT-GARDE AND THE SWEDISH ART MARKET 1910-1925 / Andrea Kollnitz -- THE AVANT-GARDE AND THE DANISH ART MARKET / Vibeke Petersen -- ART METROPOLIS FOR A DAY – COPENHAGEN DURING WORLD WAR I / Dorthe Aagesen -- KANDINSKY IN SWEDEN – MALMÖ 1914 AND STOCKHOLM 1916 / Margareta Tillberg -- THE NATIONAL AND THE INTERNATIONAL IN ULTRA (1922) AND QUOSEGO (1928) / Stefan Nygård -- AVANT-GARDE ENCOUNTERS ON KARELIAN BEDROCK (1890s-1930s) / Natalia Baschmakoff -- THE PAVILION OF DE 14 / Øivind Storm Bjerke -- FLAMMAN / Claes-Göran Holmberg -- COPENHAGEN SWORDPLAY – AVANT-GARDE MANOEUVRES AND THE AESTHETICS OF WAR IN THE ART MAGAZINE KLINGEN (1917-1920) / Bjarne S. Bendtsen -- Dada Copenhagen / Torben Jelsbak -- TRANSMISSION, APPROPRIATIONS AND RESPONSES / Hubert van den Berg , Irmeli Hautamäki , Benedikt Hjartarson , Torben Jelsbak , Rikard Schönström , Per Stounbjerg , Tania Ørum and Dorthe Aagesen -- THE RECEPTION OF THE EARLY EUROPEAN AVANT-GARDES IN SWEDEN / Claes-Göran Holmberg -- PÄR LAGERKVIST’S LITERARY ART AND PICTORIAL ART / Rikard Schönström.