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Utopia and dissent in West Germany : the resurgence of the politics of everyday life in the long 1960s / Mia Lee.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lee, Mia, author.
- Series:
- Routledge studies in modern European history ; 67.
- Routledge studies in modern European history ; 67
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Germany (West)--Politics and government--1945-1990.
- Germany (West).
- Politics and government.
- Art and society--Germany (West).
- Art and society.
- Art--Political aspects--Germany (West).
- Art.
- Art--Political aspects.
- Artists--Political activity--Germany (West).
- Artists.
- Artists--Political activity.
- Avant-garde (Aesthetics)--Political aspects--Germany (West).
- Avant-garde (Aesthetics).
- Dissenters, Artistic--Germany (West).
- Dissenters, Artistic.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 199 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2019.
- Summary:
- "Just as Chancellor Konrad Adenauer was seeking re-election on a campaign of 'no experiments,' art avant-garde groups in West Germany were reviving the utopian impulse to unite art and society. Utopia and Dissent in West Germany examines these groups and their legacy. Postwar artists built international as well as intergenerational networks such as Fluxus, which was active in Düsseldorf, Wiesbaden, and Cologne, and the Situationist International based in Paris. These groups were committed to undoing the compartmentalization of everyday life and the isolation of the artist in society. And as artists recast politics to address culture and everyday life, they helped forge a path for the West German extraparliamentary left. Utopia and Dissent in West Germany traces these connections and presents a chronological map of the networks that fed into the extraparliamentary left as well as a geographical map of increasing radicalism as the locus of action shifted to West Berlin. These two maps show that in West Germany artists and their interventions in the structures of everyday life were a key starting point for challenging the postwar order"-- Provided by publisher.
- "Just as Chancellor Konrad Adenauer was seeking re-election on a campaign of 'no experiments,' art avant-garde groups in West Germany were reviving the utopian impulse to unite art and society. Utopia and Dissent in West Germany examines these groups and their legacy. Postwar artists built international as well as intergenerational networks such as Fluxus, which was active in DuÌsseldorf, Wiesbaden, and Cologne, and the Situationist International based in Paris. These groups were committed to undoing the compartmentalization of everyday life and the isolation of the artist in society. And as artists recast politics to address culture and everyday life, they helped forge a path for the West German extraparliamentary left. Utopia and Dissent in West Germany traces these connections and presents a chronological map of the networks that fed into the extraparliamentary left as well as a geographical map of increasing radicalism as the locus of action shifted to West Berlin. These two maps show that in West Germany artists and their interventions in the structures of everyday life were a key starting point for challenging the postwar order"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- A zero hour for the arts
- The return of the avant-garde
- The Rhineland and beyond
- West Germany on trial
- In search of the radical subject
- Liberation, violence, and the politicization of the past.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.
- Other Format:
- ebook version :
- ISBN:
- 9781138389625
- 1138389625
- OCLC:
- 1055263891
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