A cultural history of the avant-garde in the Nordic countries, 1950-1975 / / edited by Tania Ørum [et al.].

• Superior document: Avant-Garde Critical Studies, Volume 32
• TeilnehmendeR: Ørum, Tania,; Olsson, Jesper,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : BRILL RODOPI,, 2016.
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Avant garde critical studies ; 32.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xxii, 857 pages)
• Notes: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Other title: Preliminary Material /; The Post-War Avant-Garde in the Nordic Countries /; Politics and Play – The Impure Arts of Öyvind Fahlström /; The Female Christ at the Stock Exchange /; Biological Avant-Garde – Inger Christensen’s det /; Images of Women /; The Kitchen – An Offspring of Steina and Woody Vasulka /; The Social Avant-Garde – The ‘Democratisation’ of Literature in the Early 1960's in Sweden /; Culture Wars in Denmark /; The Moderna Museet in Stockholm – The Institution and the Avant-Garde /; The Fylkingen Concert Society, 1950–1975 /; Self-Organisation in the Avant-Garde of the 1960's /; Åke Hodell’s Kerberos – A Case Study /; Morten Krohg and Art’s Oppositional Role /; EMS – The Electronic Music Studio in Stockholm /; Subpublications from a Basement in Snaregade 6, Copenhagen – Arena Sub-Pub (1969–1970) /; An Open Field of Play and Experimentation – The Little Magazine Birtingur /; Tvångs-Blandaren – Stuff in a Box /; Rondo and Gorilla – Magazine and Calendar /; Against Restrictions and Exclusions – For Expansion and Inclusions – The Little Magazine ta’ (1967–68) /; A Time Capsule from the Sixties – The Little Magazine ta’ BOX (1969–1970) /; In the Service of the Revolution – The Little Magazine MAK (1969–1970) /; Profil 1966–69 – Triumph and Crisis of the Collective /; Christian Dotremont’s Logogrammes and Logoneiges – European Avant-Garde Inspired by Lapland /; Exile, Correspondence, Rebellion – Tracing the Interactive Relationship between Iceland and Dieter Roth /; Galerie Køpcke – An Artist-Run Gallery in Copenhagen 1958–1962 /; Action Music! – Nam June Paik in Scandinavia, 1961 /; Clothing Irons and Whisky Bottles – Creating an Icelandic Musical Avant-Garde /; Erró, or the Porousness of Borders /; The Situationist Offensive in Scandinavia /; SÚM – The Flux in Iceland /; Fluxus, Eric Andersen and the Communist East /; Making Choices – Debatable Translations and Publication Policies of Finnish Cultural Magazines /; Chance and Play, or Marvellous Machines – A Forgotten Swedish Film Avant-Garde /; Radiophonic Poetry and a Blind Movie – Öyvind Fahlström’s Sound Art /; The Medium is the Message – Danish Radio Experiments of the 1960's /; What’s Wrong with Billy Spafon? /; Comics and the Avant-Garde /; Concrete Poetry as Sign of Technological Changes in Society /; Collaborators in Art and Technology – The Case of Billy Klüver /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 9004310509
• ISSN: 1387-3008
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Tania Ørum [et al.].

A Cultural History of the Avant-Garde in the Nordic Countries 1950-1975 is the first publication to deal with the postwar avant-garde in the Nordic countries. The essays cover a wide range of avant-garde manifestations in arts and culture: literature, the visual arts, architecture and design, film, radio, television and the performative arts. It is the first major historical work to consider the Nordic avant-garde in a transnational perspective that includes all the arts and to discuss the role of the avant-garde not only within the aesthetic field but in a broader cultural and political context: The cultural politics, institutions and new cultural geographies after World War II, new technologies and media, performative strategies, interventions into everyday life and tensions between market and counterculture.