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Utopia and dissent in West Germany : the resurgence of the politics of everyday life in the long 1960s
- Title
- Utopia and dissent in West Germany : the resurgence of the politics of everyday life in the long 1960s / Mia Lee.
- Author
- Lee, Mia
- Publication
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2019.
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Details
- Description
- viii, 199 pages; 24 cm.
- 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"--
- Series Statement
- Routledge studies in modern European history ; 67
- Uniform Title
- Routledge studies in modern European history ; 67.
- Subject
- 1945-1990
- Art and society > Germany (West)
- Art > Political aspects > Germany (West)
- Artists > Political activity > Germany (West)
- Avant-garde (Aesthetics) > Political aspects > Germany (West)
- Dissenters, Artistic > Germany (West)
- Art and society
- Art > Political aspects
- Artists > Political activity
- Dissenters, Artistic
- Politics and government
- Germany (West) > Politics and government > 1945-1990
- Germany (West)
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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.
- Call Number
- JQE 19-585
- ISBN
- 9781138389625
- 1138389625
- 9780429423796 (canceled/invalid)
- 9780429753060 (canceled/invalid)
- 9780429753077 (canceled/invalid)
- 9780429753053 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2018046084
- OCLC
- 1055263891
- Author
- Lee, Mia, author.
- Title
- Utopia and dissent in West Germany : the resurgence of the politics of everyday life in the long 1960s / Mia Lee.
- Publisher
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2019.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Routledge studies in modern European history ; 67Routledge studies in modern European history ; 67.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1945-1990
- Research Call Number
- JQE 19-585