A cultural history of the avant-garde in the Nordic countries 1925-1950 / edited by Benedikt Hjartarson, Andrea Kollnitz, Per Stounbjerg, Tania Ørum.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hjartarson, Benedikt, editor.

Kollnitz, Andrea, 1970- editor.

Stounbjerg, Per, 1956- editor.

Ørum, Tania, editor.

Series:

Avant garde critical studies ; 36.

Avant-garde critical studies, 1387-3008 ; volume 36

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Arts, Scandinavian--History--20th century.

Arts, Scandinavian.

Avant-garde (Aesthetics)--Scandinavia--History--20th century.

Avant-garde (Aesthetics).

Arts and society--Scandinavia--History--20th century.

Arts and society.

History.

Popular culture.

Scandinavia.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xxiv, 968 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill Rodopi, [2019]

Summary:

"A Cultural History of the Avant-Garde in the Nordic Countries 1925-1950 is the first publication to deal with the avant-garde in the Nordic countries in this period. The essays cover a wide range of avant-garde manifestations: literature, visual arts, theatre, architecture and design, film, radio, body culture and magazines. It is the first major historical work to consider the Nordic avant-garde in a transnational perspective that includes all the arts and to discuss the role of the avant-garde not only within the aesthetic field but in a broader cultural and political context: the pre-war and wartime responses to international developments, the new cultural institutions, sexual politics, the impact of refugees and the new start after the war."--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Intro; A Cultural History of the Avant-Garde in the Nordic Countries 1925-1950; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; Section 1: Paradigmatic Cases; Introduction to Section 1; Viking Eggeling and European Avant-Garde Cinema; For Our Own Time

Negotiating Tradition, Modernity and the Avant-Garde at the Stockholm Exhibition 1930; The Kjersmeier Collection of African Art, the Danish Avant-Garde and the Construction of Photographic Meaning; Alvar Aalto around 1930

Between Modernism and the Avant-Garde; Asger Jorn and Cobra

A Many-Headed Beast

Section 2: Legacies and New Directions Introduction to Section 2; Quosego

Final Blow, Starting Shot; Surrealism in Denmark

Vilhelm Bjerke-Petersen's Book Surrealismen, 1934; Everybody must participate in everything""

Cross-Aesthetic Practices in and around the Danish Magazine linien (1934-1939); The Reception of the Halmstad Group in the 1930s; Smile at the World, and It Will Laugh at You

Helhesten's Folkelig Avant-Garde; The Birth of a Vanguard

Icelandic Art 1940-1950; Scandinavian Women Artists and the Académie Moderne

Abstraction, Gender and the Nordic

Universal Language on National Ground

Otto G. Carlsund and Art Concret at the Stockholm Exhibition 1930

Linien II

A Local Avant-Garde Formation in Postwar Denmark; Section 3: Transmissions, Appropriations and Responses; Introduction to Section 3; To France with Love

Surrealism, Schadism, Situationism and Jens August Schade; A Nordic Verfremdung

Bertolt Brecht's Exile in Denmark, Sweden and Finland 1933-1941; Merz in the Mountains: Peripheral Art in a Peripheral Landscape

On Kurt Schwitters's Norwegian Exile and Artistic Production in Møre og Romsdal, 1937-1940

Rita Kernn-Larsen

An International Surrealist Career; From Bauhaus to Bispebjerg

Edvard Heiberg and the Social Avant-Garde; Corporeal Aesthetics

Primitivism and the Reception of African American Performing Arts around 1930; Trajectories, Circulations and Geographical Configurations of the Avant-Garde and Modernism in Finland, 1922-1939; Section 4: Institutional Settings; Introduction to Section 4; How Nordic Neue Sachlichkeit, Kulturradikalisme, Transformed Modernism into a Vernacular Avant-Garde; The Engineer and the Avant-Garde

Concrete Artists in Sweden

Arne Korsmo, PAGON and "Meccano for the Home"; State-Controlled Avant-Garde?

Emil Bønnelycke's Radiophonic Portrait of Copenhagen; Nyrki Tapiovaara

Between Avant-Garde and Mainstream Cinema; In the Absence of the Avant-Garde

Atonality, Satire and De-Romanticisation in the Musical Life of Norway; Unionalen

A Travelling Scandinavian Exhibition Platform; A Vanguard Claiming Ground

Swedish Artists on the Market and within the State 1930-1955

Avant-Garde Strategies versus Democratisation and ""Popularisation""

New Artist Roles and Forms of Distribution in the Danish Art World of the Interwar Period

Section 5: Aesthetic experiments and negotiations; Introdution to section 5; The rise of Danish avant-garde cinema in the 1940s; Gosta Hellstrom and Interwar Avant-Garde film culture in Sweden; The melody that got lost

a unique example of Avant Garde theatre in Denmark; Dark heerup

a not so quaint Avant-Gardist; The sunrise and sunset of the Avant-Garde according to William Heinesen; "The clearance sale of ideals"

Henry Parland and Finland-Swedish literary modernism, 1928-1930

Hagar Olsson and the soldier of modernism

war, brutality and borders in the interwar period; Avant-Garde moments in Nykyaikaa etsimassa, , by Olavi Paavolainen; A new approach to language

Volter Kilpi's Alastalon Salissa (1933); Understandable and revolutionary

the influence of Russian Avant-Garde picture books in Denmark in the 1930s; Section 6: Ideology, Discourse and Responses; Introduction to section 6; The socio-cultural conditions of the Avant-Gardes in Finland in the 1920s and 1930s; The socialist utopia in Norway and the changing art production and reception; Olav Dalgard

politics, film, theatre and the Avant-Garde in Norway in the interwar years

Expo Aleby, 1949

Wilhelm Freddie, Gosta Kriland and surrealist magic art in Stockholm; Jewishness, internationalism and the Swedish music scene

The roots of "Scandinavian Design"; Cleansing the domestic evil

on the degenerate art exhibition in Reykjavik, 1942; Turbulance in Icelandic Art

Landscape, the Avant-Garde and public discourse in the 1940s; Niels Bukh's functionalist body architecture

gymnastics between Avant-Garde and popular culture; Wilhelm Freddie

art and the sexual revolution

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Cultural history of the avant-garde in the Nordic countries 1925-1950

ISBN:

9789004366794

9004366792

OCLC:

1048933381