A cultural history of the avant-garde in the Nordic countries 1925-1950 / edited by Benedikt Hjartarson, Andrea Kollnitz, Per Stounbjerg, Tania Orum.
A Cultural History of the Avant-Garde in the Nordic Countries 1925-1950 is the first publication to deal with the avant-garde in the Nordic countries in this period. The essays cover a wide range of avant-garde manifestations: literature, visual arts, theatre, architecture and design, film, radio, b...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill Rodopi,, [2018] |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Avant-Garde Critical Studies
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (992 pages). |
| Notes: | Includes index. |
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Table of Contents:
- Front Matter
- Copyright Page
- Preface
- Notes on Contributors
- Cosiness and Subversion – From Post-Cubism to Functionalism and “Scandinavian Surrealism” / Benedikt Hjartarson
- Paradigmatic Cases
- Introduction to Section 1 / Andrea Kollnitz
- Viking Eggeling and European Avant-Garde Cinema / Malte Hagener and Yvonne Zimmermann
- For Our Own Time – Negotiating Tradition, Modernity and the Avant-Garde at the Stockholm Exhibition 1930 / Andrea Kollnitz
- The Kjersmeier Collection of African Art, the Danish Avant-Garde and the Construction of Photographic Meaning / Wendy A. Grossman
- Alvar Aalto around 1930 – Between Modernism and the Avant-Garde / Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen
- Asger Jorn and Cobra – A Many-Headed Beast / Karen Kurczynski
- Legacies and New Directions
- Introduction to Section 2 / Benedikt Hjartarson
- Quosego – Final Blow, Starting Shot / Fredrik Hertzberg
- Surrealism in Denmark – Vilhelm Bjerke-Petersen’s Book Surrealismen, 1934 / Camilla Skovbjerg Paldam
- “Everybody must participate in everything” – Cross-Aesthetic Practices in and around the Danish Magazine linien (1934–1939) / Marianne Ølholm
- The Reception of the Halmstad Group in the 1930s / Helen Fuchs
- Smile at the World, and It Will Laugh at You – Helhesten’s Folkelig Avant-Garde / Kerry Greaves
- The Birth of a Vanguard – Icelandic Art 1940–1950 / Aðalsteinn Ingólfsson
- Scandinavian Women Artists and the Académie Moderne – Abstraction, Gender and the Nordic / Dorthe Aagesen
- Universal Language on National Ground – Otto G. Carlsund and Art Concret at the Stockholm Exhibition 1930 / Andrea Kollnitz
- Linien ii – A Local Avant-Garde Formation in Postwar Denmark / Jens Tang Kristensen
- Transmissions, Appropriations and Responses
- Introduction to Section 3 / Andrea Kollnitz and Harri Veivo
- To France with Love – Surrealism, Schadism, Situationism and Jens August Schade / Per Stounbjerg
- A Nordic Verfremdung – Bertolt Brecht’s Exile in Denmark, Sweden and Finland 1933–1941 / Rikard Schönström
- Merz in the Mountains: Peripheral Art in a Peripheral Landscape – On Kurt Schwitters’s Norwegian Exile and Artistic Production in Møre og Romsdal, 1937–1940 / Hubert van den Berg
- Rita Kernn-Larsen – An International Surrealist Career / Ulla Angkjær Jørgensen
- From Bauhaus to Bispebjerg – Edvard Heiberg and the Social Avant-Garde / Nan Dahlkild
- Corporeal Aesthetics – Primitivism and the Reception of African American Performing Arts around 1930 / Karen Vedel
- Trajectories, Circulations and Geographical Configurations of the Avant-Garde and Modernism in Finland, 1922–1939 / Harri Veivo
- Institutional Settings
- Introduction to Section 4 / Per Stounbjerg
- How Nordic Neue Sachlichkeit, Kulturradikalisme, Transformed Modernism into a Vernacular Avant-Garde / Michael Fjeldsøe
- The Engineer and the Avant-Garde – Concrete Artists in Sweden / Linda Fagerström
- Arne Korsmo, PAGON and “Meccano for the Home” / Espen Johnsen
- State-Controlled Avant-Garde? – Emil Bønnelycke’s Radiophonic Portrait of Copenhagen / Jacob Kreutzfeldt
- Nyrki Tapiovaara – Between Avant-Garde and Mainstream Cinema / Kimmo Laine.