Utopia : the avant-garde, modernism and (im)possible life /
edited by David Ayers, Benedikt Hjartarson, Tomi Huttunen and Harri Veivo ; With the editorial assistance of �orsteinn Surmeli.
- 1 online resource (xii, 532 pages) : illustrations
- European avant-garde and modernism studies = Etudes sur l'avant-garde et le modernisme en Europe = Studien zur europ�aischen Avantgarde und Moderne, volume 4 1869-3393 ; .
- European avant-garde and modernism studies ; v. 4. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- Ideology and Aesthetics -- Rationalism and Redemption -- Experimentation and Urban Space -- Communities and Education -- Sexuality and Desire. About the Series -- Sur la collection -- Zur Buchreiheix ; Introduction ; New People of a New Life. Modernism, the Avant-Garde and the Aesthetics of Utopia ; Ideology and Aesthetics. "Enemies of Utopia for the sake of its realisation". Futurism, Surrealism, Situationism, and the Problem of Utopia World War I, Modernism and Minor Utopias ; Utopia through Art. Building Bridges and Curing Culture in War-Torn Europe. Designing a Peaceful World in a Time of Conflict. The Dutch Writer Frederik van Eeden and His Mission as an Internationalist during World War Surrealism's Utopian Cartographies. Off the Map? ; Utopian Failure and Function in Die Eigenart des �Asthetischen. Language Writing's Concrete Utopia. From Leningrad to Occupy Rationalism and Redemption ; Magnetic Modernism. Franti�sek Kupka's Mesmeric Abstraction and Anarcho-Cosmic Utopia ; Juan Gelman and the Development of a Utopian Poetics.
"Utopian hope and dystopian despair are characteristic features of modernism and the avant-garde. Readings of the avant-garde have frequently sought to identify utopian moments coded in its works and activities as optimistic signs of a possible future social life, or as the attempt to preserve hope against the closure of an emergent dystopian present. The fourth volume of the EAM series, European Avant-Garde and Modernism Studies, casts light on the history, theory and actuality of the utopian and dystopian strands which run through European modernism and the avant-garde from the late 19th to the 21st century."--Provided by publisher.