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

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.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / Tania Ørum and Jesper Olsson -- The Post-War Avant-Garde in the Nordic Countries / Tania Ørum -- Politics and Play – The Impure Arts of Öyvind Fahlström / Jesper Olsson -- The Female Christ at the Stock Exchange / Rune Gade -- Biological Avant-Garde – Inger Christensen’s det / Tue Andersen Nexø -- Images of Women / Birgitte Anderberg -- The Kitchen – An Offspring of Steina and Woody Vasulka / Halldór Björn Runólfsson -- The Social Avant-Garde – The ‘Democratisation’ of Literature in the Early 1960's in Sweden / Christer Ekholm -- Culture Wars in Denmark / Tania Ørum -- The Moderna Museet in Stockholm – The Institution and the Avant-Garde / Annika Öhrner -- The Fylkingen Concert Society, 1950–1975 / Sanne Krogh Groth -- Self-Organisation in the Avant-Garde of the 1960's / Tania Ørum -- Åke Hodell’s Kerberos – A Case Study / Fred Andersson -- Morten Krohg and Art’s Oppositional Role / Kari J. Brandtzæg -- EMS – The Electronic Music Studio in Stockholm / Sanne Krogh Groth -- Subpublications from a Basement in Snaregade 6, Copenhagen – Arena Sub-Pub (1969–1970) / Thomas Hvid Kromann -- An Open Field of Play and Experimentation – The Little Magazine Birtingur / Þröstur Helgason -- Tvångs-Blandaren – Stuff in a Box / Jesper Olsson -- Rondo and Gorilla – Magazine and Calendar / Jesper Olsson -- Against Restrictions and Exclusions – For Expansion and Inclusions – The Little Magazine ta’ (1967–68) / Thomas Hvid Kromann -- A Time Capsule from the Sixties – The Little Magazine ta’ BOX (1969–1970) / Thomas Hvid Kromann -- In the Service of the Revolution – The Little Magazine MAK (1969–1970) / Thomas Hvid Kromann -- Profil 1966–69 – Triumph and Crisis of the Collective / Sissel Furuseth -- Christian Dotremont’s Logogrammes and Logoneiges – European Avant-Garde Inspired by Lapland / Harri Veivo -- Exile, Correspondence, Rebellion – Tracing the Interactive Relationship between Iceland and Dieter Roth / Anna Jóhannsdóttir -- Galerie Køpcke – An Artist-Run Gallery in Copenhagen 1958–1962 / Anneli Fuchs -- Action Music! – Nam June Paik in Scandinavia, 1961 / Søren Møller Sørensen -- Clothing Irons and Whisky Bottles – Creating an Icelandic Musical Avant-Garde / Árni Heimir Ingólfsson -- Erró, or the Porousness of Borders / Danielle Kvaran -- The Situationist Offensive in Scandinavia / Mikkel Bolt Rasmussen -- SÚM – The Flux in Iceland / Halldór Björn Runólfsson -- Fluxus, Eric Andersen and the Communist East / Peter van der Meijden -- Making Choices – Debatable Translations and Publication Policies of Finnish Cultural Magazines / Janna Kantola -- Chance and Play, or Marvellous Machines – A Forgotten Swedish Film Avant-Garde / John Sundholm -- Radiophonic Poetry and a Blind Movie – Öyvind Fahlström’s Sound Art / Jesper Olsson -- The Medium is the Message – Danish Radio Experiments of the 1960's / Tania Ørum -- What’s Wrong with Billy Spafon? / Jonas Ingvarsson -- Comics and the Avant-Garde / Jonas Ingvarsson -- Concrete Poetry as Sign of Technological Changes in Society / Tania Ørum -- Collaborators in Art and Technology – The Case of Billy Klüver / Jesper Olsson.