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A cultural history of the avant-garde in the Nordic countries 1925-1950 edited by Benedikt Hjartarson, Andrea Kollnitz, Per Stounbjerg, Tania Orum.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Avant-Garde Critical Studies 36.
- Avant-garde critical studies ; 36
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Avant-garde (Aesthetics)--Scandinavia--History--20th century.
- Avant-garde (Aesthetics).
- Arts, Scandinavian--History--20th century.
- Arts, Scandinavian.
- Popular culture--Scandinavia--History--20th century.
- Popular culture.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (992 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill Rodopi, [2018]
- 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.
- Contents:
- Front Matter
- Copyright Page
- Preface
- Notes on Contributors
- Cosiness and Subversion – From Post-Cubism to Functionalism and “Scandinavian Surrealism” / Benedikt Hjartarson
- Paradigmatic Cases
- Introduction to Section 1 / Andrea Kollnitz
- Viking Eggeling and European Avant-Garde Cinema / Malte Hagener and Yvonne Zimmermann
- For Our Own Time – Negotiating Tradition, Modernity and the Avant-Garde at the Stockholm Exhibition 1930 / Andrea Kollnitz
- The Kjersmeier Collection of African Art, the Danish Avant-Garde and the Construction of Photographic Meaning / Wendy A. Grossman
- Alvar Aalto around 1930 – Between Modernism and the Avant-Garde / Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen
- Asger Jorn and Cobra – A Many-Headed Beast / Karen Kurczynski
- Legacies and New Directions
- Introduction to Section 2 / Benedikt Hjartarson
- Quosego – Final Blow, Starting Shot / Fredrik Hertzberg
- Surrealism in Denmark – Vilhelm Bjerke-Petersen’s Book Surrealismen, 1934 / Camilla Skovbjerg Paldam
- “Everybody must participate in everything” – Cross-Aesthetic Practices in and around the Danish Magazine linien (1934–1939) / Marianne Ølholm
- The Reception of the Halmstad Group in the 1930s / Helen Fuchs
- Smile at the World, and It Will Laugh at You – Helhesten’s Folkelig Avant-Garde / Kerry Greaves
- The Birth of a Vanguard – Icelandic Art 1940–1950 / Aðalsteinn Ingólfsson
- Scandinavian Women Artists and the Académie Moderne – Abstraction, Gender and the Nordic / Dorthe Aagesen
- Universal Language on National Ground – Otto G. Carlsund and Art Concret at the Stockholm Exhibition 1930 / Andrea Kollnitz
- Linien ii – A Local Avant-Garde Formation in Postwar Denmark / Jens Tang Kristensen
- Transmissions, Appropriations and Responses
- Introduction to Section 3 / Andrea Kollnitz and Harri Veivo
- To France with Love – Surrealism, Schadism, Situationism and Jens August Schade / Per Stounbjerg
- A Nordic Verfremdung – Bertolt Brecht’s Exile in Denmark, Sweden and Finland 1933–1941 / Rikard Schönström
- 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 / Hubert van den Berg
- Rita Kernn-Larsen – An International Surrealist Career / Ulla Angkjær Jørgensen
- From Bauhaus to Bispebjerg – Edvard Heiberg and the Social Avant-Garde / Nan Dahlkild
- Corporeal Aesthetics – Primitivism and the Reception of African American Performing Arts around 1930 / Karen Vedel
- Trajectories, Circulations and Geographical Configurations of the Avant-Garde and Modernism in Finland, 1922–1939 / Harri Veivo
- Institutional Settings
- Introduction to Section 4 / Per Stounbjerg
- How Nordic Neue Sachlichkeit, Kulturradikalisme, Transformed Modernism into a Vernacular Avant-Garde / Michael Fjeldsøe
- The Engineer and the Avant-Garde – Concrete Artists in Sweden / Linda Fagerström
- Arne Korsmo, PAGON and “Meccano for the Home” / Espen Johnsen
- State-Controlled Avant-Garde? – Emil Bønnelycke’s Radiophonic Portrait of Copenhagen / Jacob Kreutzfeldt
- Nyrki Tapiovaara – Between Avant-Garde and Mainstream Cinema / Kimmo Laine.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 9789004388291
- 900438829X
- Publisher Number:
- 10.1163/9789004388291 DOI
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