Utopia : the avant-garde, modernism and (im)possible life / / edited by David Ayers [and four others]

• Pubblicazione: Berlin, Germany ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : De Gruyter, , 2015; ©2015
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (544 p.)
• Disciplina: 700.1/08
• Soggetto topico: Arts, European - Themes, motives; Aesthetics, Modern - Themes, motives; Utopias in art
• Soggetto non controllato: Utopia; avant-garde; modernism
• Classificazione: EC 5070
• Persona (resp. second.): AyersDavid <1960->
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- About the Series - Sur la collection - Zur Buchreihe / Ayers, David / Bru, Sascha -- Introduction -- New People of a New Life / Ayers, David / Hjartarson, Benedikt -- Ideology and Aesthetics -- "Enemies of Utopia for the sake of its realisation" / Cooper, Sam -- World War I, Modernism and Minor Utopias / Dijck, Cedric Van / Posman, Sarah / Demoor, Marysa -- Utopia through Art / Brolsma, Marjet -- Designing a Peaceful World in a Time of Conflict / Lobbes, Tessa -- Surrealism's Utopian Cartographies / Adamowicz, Elza -- Utopian Failure and Function in Die Eigenart des Ästhetischen / Bachman, Erik -- Language Writing's Concrete Utopia / Watten, Barrett -- Rationalism and Redemption -- Magnetic Modernism / Brauer, Fae -- Juan Gelman and the Development of a Utopian Poetics / Jrade, Cathy L. -- Utopie und Apokalypse in der österreichischen Kulturzeitschrift Der Brenner (1910-1954) / Ender, Markus / Fürhapter, Ingrid -- Redemption, Utopia and the Avant-Garde / Sjöberg, Sami -- From the "Transparent Stone Age" to the "Space of the Chalice-Cupola" / Baschmakoff, Natalia -- A la recherche d'une sonorité utopique / Petrushanskaya-Averbakh, Elena -- Utopian Dimensions in Pedro Cabrita Reis / Marques, Bruno -- Primitivism, Photomontage, Ethnography / Dittrich, Joshua -- Experimentation and Urban Space -- A Paper Paradise / Armond, Kate -- A Retreat from Everyday Soviet Life / Marchesini, Irina -- Utopian Voyages / Kangaslahti, Kate -- Deconstructing Constructivism in Post-Communist Hungary / Forgács, Éva -- Guerrilla Art in the Streets of Athens / Drakopoulou, Konstantina -- Communities and Education -- Utopian Futures and Imagined Pasts in the Ambivalent Modernism of the Kibbo Kift Kindred / Pollen, Annebella -- New York, Anarchism and Children's Art / Archino, Sarah -- Children's Utopia / Fascist Utopia / Hakopian, Sylvia -- The Future in Modernism / Saunders, Max -- Escape from Utopia / Tokarev, Dmitrii -- Sexuality and Desire -- Erotic Utopia - Free Upbringing, Free Sex and Socialism / Paldam, Camilla Skovbjerg -- Faire jouir le système / Lozier, Claire -- The Non-Oedipal Android / Balázs, Imre József -- From Collective Love to Nudism and the Naked City / Stounbjerg, Per -- The Undercut Utopian Worlds of the Russian Pierrot / Toivola, Riku -- Dystopian Visions and Ideas of Death as a Transformation in Gilbert Clavel's An Institute for Suicide / Tanaka, Jun -- List of Contributors -- Index -- Colour Illustrations
• Sommario/riassunto: 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?
• Titolo autorizzato: Utopia
• ISBN: 3-11-043300-1; 3-11-043478-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910798054603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: European avant-garde and modernism studies ; ; Volume 4.