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Utopia
The Avant-Garde, Modernism and (Im)possible LifeISSN, Band 4 1. Aufl.
CHF 151.95 |
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Verlag: | De Gruyter |
Format: | EPUB |
Veröffentl.: | 14.12.2015 |
ISBN/EAN: | 9783110433005 |
Sprache: | englisch |
Anzahl Seiten: | 544 |
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Beschreibungen
<p>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.</p>
<p>The book’s varied and carefully selected contributions, written by experts from around 20 countries, seek to answer such questions as: <br>· how have modernism and the avant-garde responded to historical circumstance in mapping the form of possible futures for humanity?<br>· how have avant-garde and modernist works presented ideals of living as alternatives to the present?<br>· 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?</p>
<p>The book’s varied and carefully selected contributions, written by experts from around 20 countries, seek to answer such questions as: <br>· how have modernism and the avant-garde responded to historical circumstance in mapping the form of possible futures for humanity?<br>· how have avant-garde and modernist works presented ideals of living as alternatives to the present?<br>· 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?</p>
<p><strong>D. Ayers</strong>, Kent, Canterbury, UK;<strong> B. Hjartarson,</strong> Iceland, Reykyavik;<strong> T. Huttunen</strong>, Helsinki, Finland; <strong>H. Veivo</strong>, Paris III, France</p>