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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.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English, French, German Series: European avant-garde and modernism studies ; v. 4.Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2015]Description: 1 online resource (xii, 532 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9783110433005
  • 3110433001
  • 3110427095
  • 9783110427097
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Utopia.DDC classification:
  • 700.1/08 23
LOC classification:
  • NX542
Other classification:
  • EC 5070.
  • EC 5070
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: "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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Print version record and online resource (EBSCOhost, viewed August 29, 2017).

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.

Contributions in English, French, and German.

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