Utopia: The Avant-Garde, Modernism and (Im)possible Life

Published by De Gruyter 2015

Utopia

The Avant-Garde, Modernism and (Im)possible Life

Edited by: David Ayers , Benedikt Hjartarson , Tomi Huttunen and Harri Veivo

Volume 4 in the series European Avant-Garde and Modernism Studies

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110434781

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About this book

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.

The book’s varied and carefully selected contributions, written by experts from around 20 countries, seek to answer such questions as:
· how have modernism and the avant-garde responded to historical circumstance in mapping the form of possible futures for humanity?
· how have avant-garde and modernist works presented ideals of living as alternatives to the present?
· how have avant-gardists acted with or against the state to remodel human life or to resist the instrumental reduction of life by administration and industrialisation?

Author / Editor information

D. Ayers, Kent, Canterbury, UK; B. Hjartarson, Iceland, Reykyavik; T. Huttunen, Helsinki, Finland; H. Veivo, Paris III, France

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
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About the Series – Sur la collection – Zur Buchreihe David Ayers and Sascha Bru Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	ix
Introduction
New People of a New Life Modernism, the Avant-Garde and the Aesthetics of Utopia David Ayers and Benedikt Hjartarson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	3
Ideology and Aesthetics
“Enemies of Utopia for the sake of its realisation” Futurism, Surrealism, Situationism, and the Problem of Utopia Sam Cooper Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	17
World War I, Modernism and Minor Utopias Cedric Van Dijck, Sarah Posman and Marysa Demoor Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	33
Utopia through Art Building Bridges and Curing Culture in War-Torn Europe Marjet Brolsma Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	49
Designing a Peaceful World in a Time of Conflict The Dutch Writer Frederik van Eeden and His Mission as an Internationalist during World War Tessa Lobbes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	59
Surrealism’s Utopian Cartographies Off the Map? Elza Adamowicz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	73
Utopian Failure and Function in Die Eigenart des Ästhetischen Erik Bachman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	89
Language Writing’s Concrete Utopia From Leningrad to Occupy Barrett Watten Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	99
Rationalism and Redemption
Magnetic Modernism František Kupka’s Mesmeric Abstraction and Anarcho-Cosmic Utopia Fae Brauer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	123
Juan Gelman and the Development of a Utopian Poetics Cathy L. Jrade Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	153
Utopie und Apokalypse in der österreichischen Kulturzeitschrift Der Brenner (1910–1954) Markus Ender and Ingrid Fürhapter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	169
Redemption, Utopia and the Avant-Garde German-Jewish Visions of the Future Sami Sjöberg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	185
From the “Transparent Stone Age” to the “Space of the Chalice-Cupola” Perceptual Utopias in the Russian Avant-Garde (1910s–1960s) Natalia Baschmakoff Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	199
A la recherche d’une sonorité utopique Sound Representations of Utopia in the Works of Russian Musicians in the First Three Decades of the 20th Century Elena Petrushanskaya-Averbakh Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	215
Utopian Dimensions in Pedro Cabrita Reis A Melancholic Return to Modernist Paradigms? Bruno Marques Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	229
Primitivism, Photomontage, Ethnography Utopian Fragments in Hannah Höch’s Aus einem ethnographischen Museum Joshua Dittrich Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	241
Experimentation and Urban Space
A Paper Paradise Ernst Bloch and the Crystal Chain Kate Armond Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	259
A Retreat from Everyday Soviet Life Konstantin Vaginov’s Utopian Visions Irina Marchesini Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	275
Utopian Voyages Robert and Sonia Delaunay’s Mural Schemes for the 1937 Exposition Internationale in Paris Kate Kangaslahti Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	289
Deconstructing Constructivism in Post-Communist Hungary László Rajk and the Na-Ne Gallery Éva Forgács Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	307
Guerrilla Art in the Streets of Athens A Plan for Utopia in Action Konstantina Drakopoulou Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	323
Communities and Education
Utopian Futures and Imagined Pasts in the Ambivalent Modernism of the Kibbo Kift Kindred Annebella Pollen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	339
New York, Anarchism and Children’s Art Sarah Archino Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	355
Children’s Utopia / Fascist Utopia An Analysis of Children’s Textbooks and Subjection under Fascism Sylvia Hakopian Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	369
The Future in Modernism C.K. Ogden’s To-Day and To-Morrow Book Series Max Saunders Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	383
Escape from Utopia The Metamorphoses of Utopian Dreams in the Russian Avant- Garde in Exile (Il’ya Zdanevich, Boris Poplavskii) Dmitrii Tokarev Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	397
Sexuality and Desire
Erotic Utopia – Free Upbringing, Free Sex and Socialism Wilhelm Reich’s Influence on Vilhelm Bjerke-Petersen’s Danish Surrealism Camilla Skovbjerg Paldam Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	413
Faire jouir le système Georges Bataille et l’utopie de l’impossible Claire Lozier Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	429
The Non-Oedipal Android Towards a Surrealist Utopia in Postwar Romania Imre József Balázs Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	445
From Collective Love to Nudism and the Naked City Jens August Schade’s Utopian Eroticism between Surrealism, Situationism and Popular Culture Per Stounbjerg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	459
The Undercut Utopian Worlds of the Russian Pierrot Riku Toivola Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	475
Dystopian Visions and Ideas of Death as a Transformation in Gilbert Clavel’s An Institute for Suicide Jun Tanaka Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	493
List of Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	503
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	505
Colour Illustrations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	517

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Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Scholars interested in art, literature, architecture.
Pages
- Front matter: 12
- Main content: 532
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 37
- Coloured Illustrations: 30
Keywords: Utopia; modernism; avant-garde

eBook

Published: December 14, 2015
ISBN: 9783110434781

Hardcover

Published: December 14, 2015
ISBN: 9783110427097