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,...

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.